Why cycling should remain free (ie no licence or rego)

Theo Bekkers wrote:
G-S wrote:

It's true that food/bio fuel production is pretty much a trade off
from one to the other but that's far from saying that they have 'no
future'.
If it gets to the point where farmers can make more $ growing plants
for bio-fuel and there is sufficient market for it they'll switch
(believe me... they'll follow the mighty $ )

And yes the effect of that would be a reduction in food excess
available which would drive up domestic and export prices for food.
But at some point a more or less stable state should be achieved
between competing market forces (might take a while though).

A significant effect I suspect would be to deny cheap food to third
world countries (which would already be hurting because of hugely
higher fuel costs) with lesser (but still noticible) effects on lower
socio-economic levels in 1st world countries.

So some farmer in Afghanistan will have to decide whether to grow grain or
poppies.

Hang on, they've already decided that and can now afford all the oil they
want.

Theo


I was talking about 1st world country farmers Theo (but then you knew
that


G-S