Pat,
  This should be more evidence that we can not expect to 'grow' our way out
of the fuel crisis.  The real 'crisis' is that we have become accustomed to
using nonrenewable, though inexpensive until recently, fuels in inefficient
vehicles and market forces are likely to prompt conversion of biologically
significant areas to biofuel plantations before they prompt increasing
efficiency and reduction in consumption...
  We are going to need the economists, the engineers, the conservationists
and everyone else to step up to the plate on this one!  


Brian

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Topics of the day:

  1. Biofuels 'crime against humanity'

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Date:    Sun, 28 Oct 2007 19:51:38 -0400
From:    Patrick O'Dell <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Biofuels 'crime against humanity'

Thanks Brian,

I read something today in an economic investment report (which 
interestingly had nothing to do with biofuels). It stated the 
biggest environmental damages caused by new investments around the 
world were deforestation in Indonesia and burning of the Amazon.

This is likely the effect of biofuels, because these lands are 
being converted to grow sugarcane for ethanol (Amazon) and palm 
oil for biodiesel (Indonesia). I'd much rather go underground and 
take something that's already dead and make fuel (fossil oil) 
rather than have to kill the two most life filled regions on earth 
to get fuel.

Patrick

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