Farm groups say energy prices, not ethanol, driving food costs higher

Consumers may have paid a little more for their holiday meals this Christmas, but it


Heated discussions on food prices and supplies have stridden in lockstep with debate of the energy bill Congress recently passed and President Bush signed just before Christmas. The bill sets a quota for 36 billion gallons of biofuels and 15 billion gallons from corn-based ethanol by 2022.

But those newspaper reports and TV broadcasts linking food and gasoline prices to ethanol use are flawed, according to the leaders at the AFBF and the National Corn Growers Association.

Western Farm Press