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.
Why the price of ‘peak oil’ is famine
By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, International Business Editor
The London Telegraph
February 9, 2008



