What do people think about biofuels? Personally I believe they are a disaster waiting to happen and that main advocates of its use are the enviromentalists but governments like the US who are trying to break their dependance on oil.
One of the first people to critise the push towards biofuels was Castro who predicted that it would cause world poverty and major food shortages as farmers found growing these crops more lucrative than food stuffs. Now Oxfam (indirectly) have come to the same conclusions. It seems that governments haven't learnt that farmers will grow what earns them more money rather than what is actually required - the growing of opium in Afghanistan being a classic example.
BBC NEWS | World | Europe | Biofuel use 'increasing poverty'