The poor will starve so that the rich can drive....

(From the Guardian website) Biofuels are the means by which governments in the rich world avoid hard choices. Rather than raise fuel economy standards as far as technology allows, rather than promoting a shift from driving to public transport, walking and cycling, rather than insisting on better town planning to reduce the need to travel, they have chosen to exchange our wild overconsumption of petroleum for the wild overconsumption of fuel made from crops. No one has to drive less or make a better car: everything remains the same except the source of fuel. "reduction

The result is a competition between the world's richest and poorest consumers, a contest between overconsumption and survival, as the world's crops as used to make fuel rather than to feed. The demand for biofuel from crops will be met, partly through a in human consumption". The poor will starve so that the rich can drive.