So there are some problems with biofuels. So that means we should keep using petroleum? Just because it isn't perfect doesn't mean it isn't better. ....and about the growing space, there are millions of acres already plowed up and once used for crops that are now sitting idle.
It can be done and it is a step up from petro.
Bio fuels are bad when corn/soy based, they've been driving food cost up worldwide, the U.N. and U.S.A can't afford as much food for their global food programs. What you dont hear about that much is that you can get the same amount of fuel from a marijuana crop as you do corn, but w/ 1/10th the space required. I'm not a promoter of smoking it, but growing it for fuel is a damn good idea. 'Hemp' was used as currency up until 1907, they used it for everything, clothes, building materials, oil lamps, etc. An interesting fact they left out of our high school text books was that the southern crops were NOT mostly tobacco and cotton, but rather marijuana crops outnumbered the other 2 combined. But since it could not be regulated the same way actual money is, the govt. outlawed it to make sure they got their cut. How ridiculous?!?!
if bip fuel makes you mad look up Geet by Inventor Paul Pantone or even the water cell both can be made for less then 150$ and you can add then to your car but the Inventor and modifiers of the water cell where killed off lol to leave the patents open for free building and for the geet, Paul Pantone was jailed for unjust causes so if he gets out the gov. will have a wang in there behind for once lol
And if you don't care about the environment, here's another reason why biofuels suck.
A conversion to ethanol would be a strike most people where it hurts- the pocketbook.
The meat that we eat is fed primarily by corn. If corn was used as gas is used now, the demand would surpass the supply, raising prices of ethanol- and meat- and all other foods (that are shipped by truck, which need fuel) to amounts so high that the average American wouldn't be able to afford the next meal.
C'mon big buisiness. Give us a break.
I read an article about this study. It seems the main deforestation argument stems from the idea of more American farmers switching from soy to corn because of the increased value of corn crops. The needed soy is the internationally outsourced and ends up being produced in south america by some farmer that cut down a chunk of rainforest on his private land in order to grow soy.
What?
yeah, to grow the soy because farmers in the Us are growing more corn.
so..... if maybe... I dunno.. "big soy" were to push biodiesel as hard as "big corn" has pushed ethanol.. then we might not be in this situation where increased biofuel use causes supposed increased deforestation.
Big Corn is in bed with the Bush administration. Just say no to ethanol!
WAITTAMINUTE!
Corn-based ethanol has been a sham since it was initially put forth by Big Corn.
Lets not throw the baby out with the bathwater.
These studies refer to "biofuels" and produce statistics based on corn-based ethanol.
BIODIESEL (in the US) is primarily made from soybean oil which is a bi-product (technically a co-product) of growing soy to feed the soy protein to livestock. it can also be made from waste oils.
Lets not lump all all biofuels in to one category when they can be so different.
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