Alan B. Pearce wrote:

> [...] my understanding of the argument is that these areas should be put
> to this use, rather than food producing farmland.

That is probably so. The problem lies in the "should". If it is lucrative
to produce fuel crops on bad land, it is possibly more lucrative to produce
fuel crops on good land, and maybe even more lucrative than to produce
other crops. You can imagine what a species of egomaniacs does with this...
:)

Gerhard

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