Ethanol boom could hurt world's poor - expert

From a Reuters AlertNet:

"'This is shaping up as competition between the 800 million people in the world that own automobiles and the 2 billion low- income people in the world, many of whom are already spending over half their income on food,' Lester Brown, president of Washington D.C.-based environmental research group Earth Policy Institute, told reporters on a teleconference."

As I've said many, many times, there are unintended consequences to everything. When emotion takes over, watch out!