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Bill Gates

If you're using first-class land for biofuels, then you're competing with the growing of food. And so you're actually spiking food prices by moving energy production into agriculture.

Bill Gates

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Using valuable farmland to produce biofuels takes away space that could be used to grow food crops. This reduces the supply of food, which causes food prices to go up because agriculture is being used more for energy than for feeding people.

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