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Crop-based biofuels may become part of the problem
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Scientists warn that a move towards crop-based biofuels could leave us "effectively burning rainforests in our gas tanks".
Crop-based biofuels are also controversial because they use land that might otherwise be used for producing food.
Holly Gibbs, of Stanford's Woods Institute for the Environment estimates that between one and two thirds of recent deforestation was to make way for biofuel crops.
Crop-based biofuels are also controversial because they use land that might otherwise be used for producing food.
Holly Gibbs, of Stanford's Woods Institute for the Environment estimates that between one and two thirds of recent deforestation was to make way for biofuel crops.
Andrew Newton is the author of The Handbook of Compliance: Making Ethics Work in Financial Services
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on 17 Feb 2009
Also factoring that ethanol is less fuel efficient than regular fuel. Bio diesel does show some promise, though.
on 17 Feb 2009
I get angry every time I ride pass the gas station and see ethanol listed at a LOWER sticker price than regular gasoline. Do people not realize that is the result of subsidy? Apparently not.
That people think ethanol is somehow making them more environmentally friendly is a sad sham.