Food as Fuel

Noticed a trend of using crops to produce fuel for vehicles.

As energy demands devour crops once meant for sustenance, the economics of agriculture are being rewritten

Venture capitalist Vinod Khosla. "Farmers will be better off, the world will be less dangerously dependent on the Mideast, and we will take a giant step in greenhouse gas reductions," he argues. "There is little downside."

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