Your article, "The Biofuels Scam", was breathless in its unfair dismissal of homegrown, renewable ethanol.First, the World Bank report mentioned by Mr. Andrews was by no means secret.  The 2008 report that was widely reported on in various publications around the world blamed biofuels for increasing food prices. However, this year, in an about face from its original position, the World Bank issued a new study which shows that biofuels in fact played a much smaller role than previously thought and that energy prices and speculation played significant roles in the non-energy commodity price spikes seen in the recent past. Indeed, not one kernel of food fit for humans goes to ethanol production. The corn used to make ethanol in this country is field corn. In fact, a co-product of ethanol production are the Dried Distiller's Grains which go right back into the food chain in the form of one of the highest-quality livestock feeds on the market. So, ethanol production does not...(Read Full Post)