I think it was Steven who wrote about the "sophistry" of the argument about why food prices were rising (due to the diversion of corn production into making ethanol biofuel). In today's technology review
http://www.technologyreview.com/Energy/20641/ they are looking at the problems that the American rush to ethanol has caused. It appears as if only one third of the price rise is due to this however... <<Some analysts, such as C. Ford Runge, a professor of applied economics and law at the University of Minnesota, say that the use of corn for fuel rather than food could account for about one-third of the rise in prices worldwide. The other two-thirds is split between the effects of weather and increases in demand, he says. (Runge presents his argument in "How Biofuels Could Starve the Poor," >>
