[Mrs. Don-o]

I don't think the context justifies the conclusion that Fr. Pope thinks no fuels should ever be made from edible organics, period. At one time almost all illuminations (olive oil, tallows, whale oil) were also potentially edibles.

I think he's talking about huge corn and soy crops being transmuted into substitutes for gasoline.

The Left used to squawk about those same corn and soy crops being "wasted" by feeding them to meat animals (chickens, pigs and cattle ) because of the net loss of calories and especially proteins. Now they seem to think it's OK to let them be burned, not by cows but by internal combustion engines.

[SampleMan]

As I said, let the economics determine it.

The false presumption is that the corn crop is a constant,and if not used for fuel would still exist as food. But that is not a given.