And lo on Mon, 15 Sep 2008 20:47:56 +0100, Gilles Tran  
<gil### [at] gmailcom> did spake, saying:

> "Orchid XP v8" <voi### [at] devnull> a écrit dans le message de  
> news:48cea557@news.povray.org...
>
>> All of which, AFAIK, have been around for at least 30 years, and nobody  
>> has taken any notice whatsoever.
>
> Actually, one of the reasons why the price of cheese went up is due to  
> biofuels. A few countries (including the US) have been converting food  
> maize and soybeans crops to biofuel maize for a few years now, due to  
> attractive fuel prices: the US now uses more of its maize crop for  
> biofuel than it sells abroad. Last year, with a few other factors, this  
> cascaded into a world shortage of food/feed grains. The price of cereals  
> doubled between May and September 2007, and drove up the price of feeds,  
> and then of milk and cheese.

All of which you've got to see the funny side of. The eco-warriers demand  
biofuels, some governments set up favourable legislation and as a result  
rainforests are cleared to grow maize and food prices increase. At least  
they've admitted that the outcome wasn't perhaps the best and they made a  
mistake; I don't think any of the governments have done the same yet.

-- 
Phil Cook

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