Phlippines Biofuels

Philippine Daily Inquirer
Among the provisions recommended for inclusion in the roadmap were a ban on planting of biofuel feedstock on all irrigated and highly productive arable land and a ban on use of feedstock that would compete with food, including corn, wheat, soybean and rapeseed.

At least they begin to see foods to fuels, forced by the government, does not make sense. But, why not remove government intervention and dictates and let the market direct agricultural production. Government action by central bureaucratic planning makes things worse. Government planning is not responsive to needs and the market, but instead to lobbyists and special interests - thus typically making the situation worse.