Baby, we're gonna produce biofuels like it's 1999.

I'm glad Matt McGrath over at the BBC has draw attention to the issues with how we produce biofuels. Corn. Corn everywhere. That is how the Midwest is, and the U.S. has a healthy export market for food as a result. The environment does not like monoculture. Despite our rush to deforest the world for the sake of more corn, we have, for some odd reason, decided to turn 40% of our corn into biofuel. Some Brits think a similar set of incentives for the UK would be madness. Gotta say that I agree. Food crops aren't good choices for producing biofuel efficiently, especially corn. Water efficiency alone makes it a dangerous endeavor. On top of that, instability in food prices become a terrible repercussion. If you think the Egyptian revolution was all about tyranny and oppression and whatnot, food prices also had a role to play (Update: Yeah, it fell out pretty much like this). Of course, people are dreaming up awesome alternatives to our Macgyver-ed production methods every day, but we might want to rethink our current policies and incentives.

Life finds a way.