Madness

A quick quote from Paul Krugman, explaining the rise in world food prices:

And meanwhile, land used to grow biofuel feedstock is land not available to grow food, so subsidies to biofuels are a major factor in the food crisis. You might put it this way: people are starving in Africa so that American politicians can court votes in farm states. Grains gone wild

I will say it again: we're not just destroying our planet; we're not just destroying it with our eyes wide open; we're subsidising its destruction with our taxes.