alt.energy.renewable

On Mar 9, 1:22 pm, "calderh...@yahoo.com"
wrote:

> 1) I do not like watching the US starve the world because of our own
> stupid policies.

I'd like to add that quite a lot of the biofuels, and especially the
2nd generation ones such as cellulosic ethanol, are unlikely to impact
the food supply. And starvation is most often the result of
inefficiencies in distribution, as opposed to actual worldwide
shortages of food.


> 2) I don't like the idea of trying to survive 14 more years of food
> price inflation just so crooked biofuel companies can get rich. That
> is what the Bush biofuel plan means!


Same as above.. Btw, most biofuel (say biodiesel) companies have been
severely affected in a negative way by rising commodity prices as
well, such that many have turned to (much more renewable) waste oil
and animal fats.


> 3) I don't see why we should pay more for poorer quality fuel that
> has less energy per gallon and gives lower MPG.


Simple. There's not enough dinofuel to go around, and dinofuel does
cause a hell lot more pollution than most biofuels.


> 4) Biofuels speed global warming, causes water shortages, and erodes
> topsoil. Biofuels are the worst enemy of the environment and I feel
> that we are destroying the earth fast enough with overpopulation so
> there is no need to create manmade disasters to destroy it even
> faster.


Only if the biofuels are produced from razed rainforests. In fact,
most of the biodiesel traded is from waste oil, oil from old farmland,
and even waste animal fat!

Airlan
The Organic Energy Blog
http://www.rimlifebiotek.com/organic_energy/