When Green Aint!

I've been telling people for some time that the whole ethanol/bio-diesel thing is a joke, a really cruel joke. Turning food into motor fuel is just plain stupid. It raises the price of food products, the fuel produced is inferior(less btu per) and it's still a carbon fuel. Yes, when you burn it you create C02 and when burned in an internal combustion engine you get NO compounds too. Most people don't or won't understand that. Either they're too weak in science knowledge or too willing to listen to Al Gore.

Now I'm not against making some alternate fuels. We throw away an awful lot of material in this country that could be used to make fuels. We usually just bury it in the ground. Now taking nice clean grain is a whole lot easier, so what if you need it to make bread and tortillas. Let them eat garbage.

Here's an article that may explain better.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/07/070724160209.htm

Science Daily — Renewable does not mean green. That is the claim of Jesse Ausubel of the Rockefeller University in New York. Writing in Inderscience's International Journal of Nuclear Governance, Economy and Ecology, Ausubel explains that building enough wind farms, damming enough rivers, and growing enough biomass to meet global energy demands will wreck the environment.

Science Daily — Renewable does not mean green. That is the claim of Jesse Ausubel of the Rockefeller University in New York. Writing in Inderscience's International Journal of Nuclear Governance, Economy and Ecology, Ausubel explains that building enough wind farms, damming enough rivers, and growing enough biomass to meet global energy demands will wreck the environment.