It's just not happening in significant amounts.

Of course not. People do not typically engage in business practices that would be economically ruinous to attempt. That being said -- a single F-T plant operated by the South African company Sasol currently has a production capacity of 150,000 barrels per day. If that's not a "significant amount" for an otherwise non-economically-competitive energy production process... I just don't know what is.

Starvation rates in the third world rose significantly following food price rises in 2007-2008. It's not something that won't happen; it's already happening.

Ironically those actually came about from the corn-ethanol push. Dropping that ended the food riots in most of the world. Furthermore, global hunger is really more of a political problem than a supply one. Which is part of at least one Kenyan economist has become internationally famous for saying of foreign aid to Africa, "for God's sake, just stop."

I can see that I'm not convincing you, but I find your counterpoints very unconvincing.

I can only suggest that one or the other of us is currently suffering from a problem of allowing his convictions to bias him against the reception of new facts that contradict our current position.