Don Hopps, Consulting Director at our Institute here (IWF), has a new opinion piece in the Tacoma News Tribune about biofuels.  In it he says, "The rise and fall of biofuels is a classic example of good intentions, bad policy and ugly greed. The way out is simple but hard to travel: We must abandon the use of food crops to produce biofuels."

Don then clarifies that biofuels can be produced from waste products rather than crops.  But that is only part of the issue.  He says, "economic necessity demands biofuel production must model the sustainable values it is supposed to serve."  The change in consumer habits and public policy can only come from a paradigm shift.  "Our economic measures must catch up with moral imperatives, exchanging the global scale for the human scale and valuing feeding people rather than fueling our driving mania."

Read the entire piece.