EU admits they couldn't see a train coming

EU didn't foresee biofuel problems, environment chief admits

How dumb is the EU?

I've been making the call on the food price issue for the last 7 odd years to anyone who would listen - basically since I first heard of the idea of bio fuel and wondered where exactly they planned on growing the damn stuff, and I have no special knowledge at all. And the issue of whether biofuels actually reduce net emissions or not is just really really basic environmentalism.

Are we really being lead by such a bunch of idiots? And don't you just want to slap them?