Food+for+cars

= Food for Us or our Cars? =

= **The Paleo Problem:** = Neolithic farmers domesticated animals to help them with the hard work of farming. These animals needed food, so Neolithic farmers had to grow more food to feed themselves and to feed their working animals.

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==== Today we use engines to help us farm and live. Think about how many times engines were used from seed to dinner! Because of limited supplies of natural petroleum, we are now using using more of our food crops to make biofuels to run these engines. ====

**Can we grow enough food for ourselves and our cars? Is this so-called "green energy" really green?**
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Most of the tapioca Thai farmers grow is not used for human food. Some is for animal feed, but much is turned into biofuels for cars. Read more here.

Other important staple crops around the world like corn, wheat and sugar cane are being turned into biofuel. [|Read more here.] = =
 * What is Thailand's approach to biofuels?
 * Can we afford to use so much of our precious land, soil, water & agrochemicals to grow food for our cars or should we [|use resources more carefully]?
 * What problems did this[| 2013 report find about growing crops for biofuels in America]?
 * Are biofuels causing food shortages, food price increases, deforestation?
 * Is this a good use of our limited farmland?
 * Are there other sources we can use to make biofuels in place of staple crops?



=Possible Innovations=
 * [|Energy efficient Cars like the Prius]