However, the European politicians are not cool with it because it is bankrupting their own biodiesel industry. On the other hand, that is an industry that should go bankrupt, so I'm cool with it.

It will soon be illegal in Europe not to blend at least 2.5 percent biodiesel into fuel supplies. Failing to do so will land you in hot water with law enforcement. Incompetent politicians the world over lead us forward backwards in our battle to save the planet by forcing consumers to use a fuel shown by multiple peer-reviewed scinetific studies to be worse for global warming than the fossil fuel it replaces. Food prices are at record highs and the number of people starving, held at bay for decades, has begun to climb toward a billion again. The biodiversity crisis is worse than ever as forests fall under pressure for more cropland.

"My children ask for food, and how can I not feed them? They ask for some eggs, beans, and I give it to them," said Maria De Las Mercedes Ramirez, a 41-year-old mother of five. "I, as the mother, will eat less."

What Ramirez spends on corn has shot up more than 50 percent in the last few months, cooking oil is up 75 percent, and beans have doubled in price.

"You can see a lot of concern in their faces when they come to pick up their kids," principal Delsy Amilia Chavez said of the mothers. "And some of the mothers are anemic. They can't afford to eat beans and aren't getting the iron they need."

Lord help them.

(Hat tip to KO.)