However, in the UK at least, high grain prices may mean that some of the biofuel production plants planned may not be built. It is just too risky to invest million in plant that may be uneconomic if grain prices remain high.
This leaves the polititions in a quandry, they need biofuels to give some small amount of fuel security in the case of a world crisis restricting the flow of oil imports, yet growing these pushes up the price of crops. It really does show that the world is becoming short of all sorts of resources in the face of a rising population hungry for more energy and better food.
One answer to this is to develop and use the Intact Harvester in a system that will produce both food and fuel from the same land at similar cost to just producing food by normal methods.
