What's your opinon on Bio-Fuels?

Question

In the past couple weeks I've been hearing more and more about Bio-Fuels, different combos of ethanol to gas ratios, vegtable oil etc... So my question is what does everyone think about Bio-Fuels and do you think it'll be a succesfull substiution of Gasoline?

Answer 1

In my own personal opinion I do not believe that Bio-Fuels will ever be the answer but only a bandaid for the petroleum companies, in fact I also have read much research that if the demand became high enough for bio-fuels that productions of such things as "corn gasoline" would be a detroment to the enviroment in addition to bad farming habits such as wheat had done for us in the thirtys when combined with a drought. The fact is we will run out of petroleum, and we do need to change the drug habit the petroluem companies have us in. They have taking our love affair with being able to get around independantly and made so that we could not do it with out hydro-carbons being involved. truth is the technoligy has been around since the late fortys of other alternatives that the oil companies are paying to keep people from finding out.

Answer 2

I'm all for bio-fuel if they can find a way to make it catch on. I've seen a lot of commercials about it, but other than that I can't be sure if it will successfully phase out gasoline. I sure hope so because it definitely sounds like a great alternative. Problem is, the gasoline industry already rakes in a lot of $$$. I'm guessing a lot of people in that industry aren't going to be so quick to go green.

Answer 3

It shows promise but corn is probably not the answer. It currently takes too much energy to make ethanol from corn. Using cane sugar is potentially much more efficient as is switch grass. Using corn is unsustainable food burning as was stated by someone I don't know. It may be a sweet deal for corn farmers but it is not the best use of food. Perhaps some vegetable oil may be an economical substitute for diesel one day. The World Wildlife Foundation is trying to stop palm oil plantations in Indonesia because it takes too much land to grow. It is not without problems.

Answer 4

the biggest reason is that the conglomerates that own the fossil gas industry have spent untold billions to maintain extra low-priced power from transforming into mainstream. each and all of the commercials approximately what they are doing to help our surroundings is all bull$hit. they simply placed on the environmental face jointly as strangling the different source that would desire to compete with or do away with using fossil fuels. the 2nd reason is we've not chanced on a source which will produce useful power reliably. Wind, image voltaic, wave, geothermal and nuclear all have substantial drawbacks.

Answer 5

In a village near here Bio gas is used for cooking. Every household has milch cows. They produce (gobar)cow dung gas. All farmers are rich. All take milk regularly.Agrarian economies thrive with bio fuels

Answer 6

Fuel diversity is good. The more different fuels we can use the better. Car manufacturers are already adding multi-fuel engines to new vehicles like E85 & BioFuels. Home renovation projects like "My Green Project" ( http://mygreenproject.blogspot.com ) are trying to incorporate hydrogen & solar energy.

Answer 7

Its 10 times cheaper than regular gasoline and works just as good...im pretty sure it will be a good success but then we might have shortages in corn now dont ya think? ;-)

Answer 8

proly wont see it in ths life time... big oil has us by the cahones

Answer 9

I say great! Lets do it!!!