http://fr.news.yahoo.com/02032007/290/u ... rants.html
The USA do as they wish as usual .....>
But the Forum biofuels international, which also includes Brazil, South Africa and the European Commission, will not resolve the issue of trade and taxes, points of contention between the large producers such as the United States and Brazil
In December, the US Congress extended the tax on ethanol imports until 2009, even though this biofuel is much cheaper to produce from Brazilian sugar cane than from American corn.
... so that they will raise the price of corn, and the poor Mexicans will pay for it to eat.
Damn shit market: the law of supply and demand has found its limits when it prevents the poor of this world from eating (ditto in Africa)