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Originally Posted by TheMercenary:

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The rising cost of food in this country is directly related to the price of fuel and nothing else. Period.

Originally Posted by richlevy:

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I usually have a problem with phrases like 'always' and 'nothing else'. While I'll agree that energy costs in the supply chain have a lot to do with it, you can't discount natural disasters and drought (possibly more frequent/damaging due to global warming) and rising demand in third world nations that are becoming wealthier.

Note my comment "in this country", frankly I am not as concerned about third world nations issues as I am about the costs directly affecting our country.

But demand, and the cash to buy, in the rest of the world affects the prices here too.

This was very good.

Who's Fueling Whom?
Why the biofuels movement could run out of gas

By Richard Conniff
Smithsonian magazine, November 2007
I first started to think that the biofuels movement might be slipping into la-la land when I spotted a news item early this year about a 78-foot powerboat named Earthrace. In the photographs, the boat looked like a cross between Howard Hughes' Spruce Goose and a Las Vegas showgirl. Skipper Pete Bethune, a former oil industry engineer from New Zealand, was trying to set a round-the-world speed record running his 540-horsepower engine solely on biodiesel.

Along the way, he spread the word that, as one report put it, "it's easy to be environmentally friendly, even in the ostentatious world of powerboating."

Well, it depends on what you mean by "easy." Bethune's biodiesel came mostly from soybeans. But "one of the great things about biodiesel," he declared, is that "it can be made from so many different sources." To prove it, his suppliers had concocted a dollop of the fuel for Earthrace from human fat, including some liposuctioned from the intrepid skipper's own backside.

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http://www.smithsonianmag.com/specia...el-200711.html

By using the skipper's butt it also lightens the load. :D
Another good article from a great magazine, read it cover to cover every month.