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A man walks with his bicycle through sugar cane fields in Piracicaba, Brazil, Friday, March 2, 2007. In the background are ethanol-filled tanks. Not long ago, investors were swarming Brazil's biofuel industry, which churns out the cheapest ethanol on Earth. But the financial crisis has put the brakes on one of the country's most promising export industries, as foreign investment and credit dries up and oil prices fall, making ethanol less competitive. (AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano)

AMSTERDAM -- In future years, we may look back at the Great Mexican Tortilla Crisis of 2006 as the time when ethanol lost its vroom.

Right or wrong, that was when blame firmly settled on biofuels for the surge in food prices. The diversion of American corn from flour to fuel put the flat corn bread out of reach for Mexico's poorest.