Shell says biofuels from food crops “morally inappropriate” – Yahoo! News

Here’s something that has never crossed my mind. A producer of biofuel believes that using food (I’m guessing corn) to create fuel is morally wrong. The argument is, if there are people without food, using the food we do have to create fuel isn’t a good thing.

They said they could make fuel out of plant waste and wood chips (the trees suffer again) to make fuel instead of food crops.

Some food for thought. Of course, our concern is never with the hungry or poor, so perhaps it is good that some companies are (even if in the end it is self-serving). I’m sure if we put our minds to it, we already have the resources to get food to those without food. It just isn’t really cost effective.

The bottom line will probably end up being how to cut energy costs. We will spend plenty of $$ to figure out how to do that. How to get food to those without (or even getting people clean water) will just have to wait.