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Turning food into fuel has been widely promoted by many national leaders as a great way to beat the fuel crisis, while also reducing reliance on unstable oil and gas suppliers.
However biofuels have also been blamed for higher food prices, food shortages in the poorest nations, hunger riots and fall of governments. US market for biodiesel is larger than a billion gallons a year and Federal directives require this to rise to at least 36 billion gallons a year by 2022. The European Union requires at least 5.75% of all transport fuel to be made from biofuel by 2010, rising to 10% by 2020.
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