The situation begins to get really serious:

May 29, 2007

Ethanol boom may fuel shortage of tequila: Mexican farmers burning agave fields and replanting them with corn

Could this have a long-term effect rivaling global warming?

One can burn the agave and get a corn crop in the next season; but I've understood that returning to the production of agave requires a multi-year buildup before crops sufficiently mature for harvest are produced.

It may be a one-way trip.

[more to come?]


John