Bio- fuels boondoggle, next round

WANTING bio-fuels to create thousands of jobs is not the same as it being possible, just as hoping the British would simply sail away from South Africa if only the Xhosa killed all their cattle, did not make it happen. Dreaming for something is not enough. Now we have a voice of sanity -- Professor Theo Kleynhans, professor in agricultural economics at the University of Stellenbosch, who notes, sensibly, that while it was just possible to use maize as a source for bio-fuel when South Africa produced enough maize to make it a net exporter now with a strong rand, a high maize price, and a need to import, "maize as a main source of bio-fuels is not viable." Please, heaven, Spigot implores, make the Department of Minerals and Energy listen.