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	<title>Briarpatch Magazine &#187; biofuels</title>
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		<title>Why the price of &#8216;peak oil&#8217; is famine</title>
		<link>http://briarpatchmagazine.com/2008/02/11/why-the-price-of-peak-oil-is-famine/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2008 18:23:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the logical outcome of using fossil fuel inputs to grow food, and then turning that food into fuel.

As Evans-Pritchard points out, “energy and food have ‘converged’ in price and can increasingly be switched from one use to another,” which is just a polite way of saying that, in a time of scarcity, rich people’s ability to pay for fuel will quickly outstrip poor people’s ability to pay for food. 

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<h4> Why the price of 'peak oil' is famine</h4>
By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, International Business Editor
<em>The London Telegraph</em>
February 9, 2008

Vulnerable regions of the world face the risk of famine over the next three years as rising energy costs spill over into a food crunch, according to US investment bank Goldman Sachs.

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		<title>&#8220;Fuel made from food is a dumb idea&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://briarpatchmagazine.com/2007/10/21/fuel-made-from-food-is-a-dumb-idea/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2007 01:56:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dave</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The International Food Policy Research Institute has joined the chorus of groups and individuals speaking out against the biofuel bandwagon.
Read Stephen Leahy&#8217;s Inter Press Service article here.
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		<title>Agrofuels Will Harm the World&#8217;s Poor</title>
		<link>http://briarpatchmagazine.com/2007/07/13/agrofuels-will-harm-the-worlds-poor/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jul 2007 20:19:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a lot of good information surfacing recently on the follies of making fuel out of food. Paul Beingessner, in a recent edition of his weekly syndicated column, does an excellent job of cutting through the hype to lay bare the major problems that the expansion of the biofuels industry creates &#8212; especially for the [...]]]></description>
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