I’m not a big fan of corn ethanol, but this whole food vs. fuel debate is either being spearheaded by idiots or they are on Big Oil’s payroll. Instead of a biofuel moratorium, let’s figure out how to steer the industry away from corn and soybeans toward next generation biofuels like waste-to-fuel, jatropha and algae. The whole reason for starting the biofuel movement was to get rid of surplus food production and increase the value of Ag products (and we thought they were trying to save the planet). Farmers now have a strong, escalating market as China, India and other countries pick up our bad habits, like eating beef.

It’s now time to accelerate the decoupling of biofuels from food. Big Ag is turning out to be almost as bad as Big Oil, but that doesn’t mean that biofuels are bad. We just need to cut back on crazy subsidies and stop letting Big Ag push us around. You don’t need a PhD to figure out that a biofuels moratorium is pure hogwash. Actually, it appears that for some reason having a PhD may cause you to believe this crap.