Latest comments posted about Biofuel’s winners and losers on ChinaDialogue en-gb http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/show/single/en/1017-Biofuel-s-winners-and-losers http://staging.chinadialogue.net/images/cdlogo.gif http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/show/single/en/1017-Biofuel-s-winners-and-losers Actually, the total maize amount of the US could increase by 150% when changing the one harvest per year to two harvests per year. So, the whole reason of food price soaring is spectulation. Speculators lead to the soaring price of food. it's a economic issue. Why should I consider problems of Afghanistan? I do not care. And do you think there is anybody actually caring about that? Naive. It's politic, NOT your compasion which I respect. Sat, 27 Sep 2008 14:02:32 -0400 http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/summary/1017#comment-7892 http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/summary/1017#comment-7892 The danger in the rush to biofuels is that special interests will be protected at the expense of the environment. So the US maize farmers, who are a powerful lobby, are well placed to cash in; but maize is not the most efficient biofuel. We have all read of the devastation cause by deforestation to plant biofuels and as long as this is an indiscriminate gold rush it will do more harm than good On the other hand, crops such as jatropha, which can be grown on very poor land, might be a real help to poor communities. In Afghanistan, for instance, where farmers grow opium poppies because the illegal drugs trade offers them the only possibility of a real cash income, there is potential for biofuels, especially jatropha, to be a benign substitute. abdul Sat, 19 May 2007 12:43:22 -0400 http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/summary/1017#comment-3725 http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/summary/1017#comment-3725