03 January 2007

Biofuels are not a good idea

I've been saying it all along; mostly I've been saying it about corn- and soybean-oils but it's true for whatever else you might want to burn that way: You are just trading one problem for another.

At best, biofuels are a temporary measure -- very short term. The minute you start setting up agricultural facilities with the intent of growing crops for biofuels, you're either reducing the acreage available for food crops or you're clearing new lands for agriculture and both of those are bad things in the long haul.

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