Excerpt from a quoted Washington Post article:
It's difficult to understand how advocates of biofuels can believe they are a real solution to kicking our oil addition....[T]he entire U.S. corn crop would supply only 3.7 percent of our auto and truck transport demands. Using the entire 300 million acres of U.S. cropland for corn-based ethanol production would meet about 15 percent of demand....And the effects on land and agriculture would be devastating.Via Junk Science blog, where there's a great quote from PJ O’Rourke:
The college idealists who fill the ranks of the environmental movement seem willing to do absolutely anything to save the biosphere, except take science courses and learn something about it.
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I wonder what it is that is driving this media "anti-biofuels" onslaught?
If they were honest that they are attacking Jimmy Carter's 30 year old misguided energy policies, that would be honest and put the criticisms where they belong.
Unfortunately, the criticism seems to be so scatter-shot that it condemns new biofuels approaches too.
That is unfortunate for those readers who could have benefited financially from a timely investment in the biofuels areas that are going to be huge cash bonanzas.
I well remember the same sort of skepticism about biotechnology in medicine, back in the 80s and 90s. Yes, those people were idiotic, and I knew they were idiotic at the time, but closed minds are hard to budge.
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