It turns out Europe is looking at reconsidering their biofuel goal, citing evidence that their requirements are contributing to deforestation and higher food prices. Whoopsie!

From the New York Times:

Until recently, European governments had sought to lead the rest of the world in the use of biofuels, aiming to derive 10 percent of Europe’s transportation fuels from biofuels by 2020. But the allure has dimmed amid growing evidence that the kind of goals proposed by the European Union are contributing to deforestation, which speeds climate change, and helping force up food prices.

Of corse they also note:

There is disagreement about the role in rising food prices, and some analysts say that the backlash against biofuels now is going too far.

Yes, you have to say this, because nothing that they do to save mother earth can be doubted.  They also go on to say:

Michael Mann, a spokesman, said Monday that higher food prices had been caused by increased demand for meat and dairy products, particularly in China and India, two years of bad harvests around the world, speculation and by restrictions on exports of food commodities by some nations.

So, what is more likely?  The most powerful governments in the world are trying to make a switch to bio-fuels due to all the environmental pressure in the past ten years, or that eating meat and darry products combined with a couple of bad years of harvesting?  The last two years of bad harvests don’t account for the rise in price.  If the EnvironMentalists were realy worried about saving people, they wouldn’t let people die of hunger for a politically correct fuel.  maybe the EU is figuring this out.