What a Waste

The European Union recently has issued a directive calling for biofuels to meet 5.75% of transportation fuel needs by 2010
The grain required to fill the petrol tank of a Range Rover with ethanol is sufficient to feed one person per year. Assuming the petrol tank is refilled every two weeks, the amount of grain required would feed a hungry African village for a year
Much of the fuel that Europeans use will be imported from Brazil, where the Amazon is being burned to plant more sugar and soybeans, and Southeast Asia, where oil palm plantations are destroying the rainforest habitat of orangutans and many other species. Species are dying for our driving
Food prices are already increasing. With just 10% of the world's sugar harvest being converted to ethanol, the price of sugar has doubled; the price of palm oil has increased 15% over the past year, with a further 25% gain expected next year.
How much oil does it take to make a plastic bottle?
Next we wonder how much food producing space is taken up with tobacco and alcohol related production.
Not to mention the amount of time effort and fertilizer that goes into lawns. Why not produce ethanol from grass clippings?