Turning Soybeans into Diesel Fuel Is Costing Billions
Biodiesel is still way more environmentally friendly than ethanol, which is also heavily subsidized.  And the idea of biofuels displacing food production also generically applies to any biofuel, again including Ethanol.<p>This kinda reads like a corn industry hit-piece on a rival technology.<p>Besides, having third-world countries be dependent on US exports of (heavily subsidized) surplus food is one of the things that causes famines (shortages in the US come out of exports first), and continues the cycle of economic dependency (domestic producers cannot compete with heavily subsidized US exports).  The actual fix here would be to develop foreign food production <i>and then have the US reduce emissions to offset</i>.