Making ethanol from food is hurting poor families

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BBC NEWS | Americas | Mexico leader in tortilla pledge



Most interesting part:

The price of tortillas, the main source of calories for many of Mexico's poor, rose by more than 10% last year.

Mr Calderon said the government would clamp down on speculators and search for cheaper providers of corn.

Under the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement, Mexico used to get cheap corn imports from the US, but Mexico's Economy Minister Eduardo Sojo said that with more US corn being diverted into ethanol production, supply was dwindling.

So the question is, is making fuel from corn a good idea? I think this story makes that obvious...