Sparks: Scramble for biofuel as oil prices rise ‘could push world closer to food crisis’

That which claims to nourish and that which claims to power are equally empty, each arising only in dependence upon the other's lack.

This new hunger, born of our own design, now turns its empty eyes upon the sustenance of the cradle, and its creator feigns surprise.

Fear of scarcity in one market drives a policy that ensures a far greater scarcity in another, all under the pretext of necessity.

Men have become the tools of their tools, trading the essential fact of bread for the illusion of a more convenient fuel.

Seems the experts have figured out how to make a field feed your car and starve your neighbor at the same time, which is progress, I suppose.

To secure fuel by abandoning your grain supply is to win the skirmish while surrendering the campaign.

Let the farmer who sold his corn for fuel explain to his children the new economy of an empty stomach.

The committee's elegant solution for powering the motorcar involved, with impeccable logic, setting the dinner table for no one.

The iron house grows warmer with this new fire, yet the sleepers inside mistake the heat for progress.

A clear geometric proof demonstrates that taking from one quantity to increase another leaves the sum of human need unchanged.

From the Maghreb to the Malabar, I have observed that a market which pits the hearth against the engine soon finds itself with neither.

An experiment that burns the seed corn to warm the barn is a poor calculation, no matter the temporary price of wood.

This rationalized desperation merely extends the old logic of denying sustenance to the many for the fleeting comfort of the few.