http://lwfyouth.org/2008/04/22/biofuel-friend-or-foe/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=biofuel-friend-or-foe The blog of the Lutheran World Federation (LWF) Youth Desk. Young adults from around the world write about youth ministry and events, about their life, faith and justice. Fri, 18 May 2012 09:54:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://lwfyouth.org/2008/04/22/biofuel-friend-or-foe/#comment-3161 Jane.stranz Thu, 24 Apr 2008 16:27:08 +0000 http://lwfyouth.org/?p=276#comment-3161 Thanks Francis for this really powerful post and for your previous post on the cost of rice. It's currently the International Year of Planet Earth and it seems more than ironic that these terrible things are happening in this year. Biofuel seems to me the right thing to use when it is recycled oil from deep fat frying or some thing like that but not when it is food crops, it's just so crazy. Even more people being forced into poverty or starvation so that a very few can fill their petrol tanks just seems utterly wicked in the end. We can see it's wrong but the markets don't seem able to stop driving the prices higher and higher. Sorry I'm ranting I'd better stop! Thanks Francis for this really powerful post and for your previous post on the cost of rice.
It’s currently the International Year of Planet Earth and it seems more than ironic that these terrible things are happening in this year. Biofuel seems to me the right thing to use when it is recycled oil from deep fat frying or some thing like that but not when it is food crops, it’s just so crazy.
Even more people being forced into poverty or starvation so that a very few can fill their petrol tanks just seems utterly wicked in the end. We can see it’s wrong but the markets don’t seem able to stop driving the prices higher and higher.
Sorry I’m ranting I’d better stop!

]]> http://lwfyouth.org/2008/04/22/biofuel-friend-or-foe/#comment-3153 Roger Schmidt, Switzerland Wed, 23 Apr 2008 07:48:04 +0000 http://lwfyouth.org/?p=276#comment-3153 Thanks a lot for this Francis! To me it seems really tragic how things that were a good idea turn wrong. When I first heard of biofuels, I admit, my first thought that it is quite a good idea: To shift from non-renewable energy to renewable. But it became clear very quickly that it simply is no good idea to burn food. The numbers Francis is providing make clear were the problem lies: It has gotten very lucrative to produce food to burn. The theme of the LWF General Assembly 2010 is "Give us today our daily bread". It is going to be highly relevant to discuss this theme on the background of the current developments. Thanks a lot for this Francis!
To me it seems really tragic how things that were a good idea turn wrong. When I first heard of biofuels, I admit, my first thought that it is quite a good idea: To shift from non-renewable energy to renewable. But it became clear very quickly that it simply is no good idea to burn food.
The numbers Francis is providing make clear were the problem lies: It has gotten very lucrative to produce food to burn.
The theme of the LWF General Assembly 2010 is “Give us today our daily bread”. It is going to be highly relevant to discuss this theme on the background of the current developments.

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