Watering Down Biofuels | The Resilient Earth

Overall, here is how biofuels stack up:

* Produce little or no additional energy.
* Can damage vehicle engines not designed to run on ethanol.
* Result in greater CO2 emissions than fossil fuel.
* Causes rising food prices either directly of by competing with food crops.
* Encourages clearing of forest lands.
* Increases use of fertilizer leading to greater runoff and NOx emissions.
* Produce less energy than simply burning the biomass to produce electricity.
* Will consume large amounts of already scarce freshwater.
* Are only commercially viable with government subsidies and forced use mandates.

How can this be made any clearer? Biofuels are a bust, a scam, a swindle created by muzzy headed greens, big agri-business, and government officials who are either industry lackeys, just plain ignorant or both. In the US this stuff is being pushed by corn belt politicians who are using it as a new form of agricultural subsidy. Whether you believe in global warming or not, the threat of water shortages is undeniably real and growing. Already the world's remaining rain forests are being cleared to raise feedstock crops for ethanol and biodiesil. Biofuels will not make the environment cleaner or our nations energy independent, they only make fat cats rich. We need to STOP BIOFUELS NOW! The only proper place for ethanol is in your favorite adult beverage.

Conoco’s Mulva: Waxman-Markey ‘Unfair’ to Refiners - Environmental Capital - WSJ

ConocoPhillips, unlike some of its peers in the oil patch, tried to play ball and help shape U.S. climate [swindle] policy. Conoco, a charter member of the U.S. Climate Action Partnership, publicly called for the type of cap-and-trade program Congress has just produced.

“It’s important to have a seat at the table,” Conoco chief executive James Mulva said in an interview, defending his company’s decision to lobby for federal action on climate change. The problem is, Mr. Mulva’s not happy with what’s being served.

The Associated Press: Climate [fraud] bill [allegedly] to pay hundreds of dollars in rebates

"The Waxman-Markey bill will get our planet out of the red, while helping to put our budget back in black," Markey said in a statement.