This article explores the impact of the rising cost of cooking oil in both the developed and developing world. Concerns over costs have caused rationing in some communities and with the shift of cooking oil crops to bio-fuel crops, more land is being cleared to grow more crops with more people going hungry.
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An Oil Quandary: Costly Fuel Means Costly Calories
By KEITH BRADSHER
Published: January 19, 2008
Across the globe, huge demand for biofuels has created tension between using land to produce fuel and using it for food.
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