They ran a story on the BBC news today about how pasta prices in Italy are going to jump by 20% due to all this biofuel business. Something to do with more sunflower crops (and less wheat) and subsidies for farmers growing them. They had some jolly Italian farmer yakking in some language that didn't sound like English about how it was such a great deal for him.
They also mentioned a spike in beer prices in Germany and tortilla prices in Mexico.
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