Examiner.com's Hans Bader said ethanol is to blame for a whole list of world maladies, including Islamic extremism, in a commentary this week.

Bader writes that the world's population is being "battered by surging food prices." Those high food prices, he said, are partly a result of subsidized demand for biofuels.

"Ethanol subsidies damage the environment by wiping out forests, polluting water supplies, and eroding the soil," Bader said, "by converting food into fuel, they cause famines and food riots in the world's poorest countries. That fuels Islamic extremism in Afghanistan and the Middle East."

Bader said President Obama is ...