growing crops for bio fuel??

Question

is it wise to grow crops for bio fuel, a band aid fix at best, but taking land away from growing needed food crops, wheat is going through the roof, but your gas bill does not go down one cent.

Answer 1

Bio fuel, schmio fuel.
Apparently it takes 3.5 to 6 gallons of water to produce one gallon of ethanol from corn.
As for the price of your gas bill going down, you can always dream.

Answer 2

Corn used in bio-fuel, has been a government storage item and has not been used for years. The government has paid the farmers to not grow corn, there's such a surplus, until Bio-fuel came along, now there's a market for it. At least here in Southeastern Michigan where we grow sugar beets and beans and soy. we need the corn production for the fuel.
It's up to the government to push the fuel and the public to buy it so we could make more, it makes jobs for both the people making the fuel and the farmer. So, it's more then just a "band-aid" crop.
The food crops are going to foreign countries and through the lend leas and trade agreements we not making anything off them, thanks to Bush.

The small farmer here is all but gone now, it's now the man that runs the company farm and holds 25 thousand acres here, like the dairy farmer here with 30 thousand head of cows for milking, there are no mom and pop farmers any more here.

Answer 3

no longer plausible - All option fuels will continually be option as maximum motorists desire petrol / diesel autos and could proceed to attain this till fossil fuels run out. by ability of this time all of us desire that scientists would have invented a synthetic version of petrol and diesel for us to maintain on making use of. the only "plausible option" is to locate a fashion of becoming fossil fuelled autos greater gasoline effective or much less polluting. How approximately this for a tip... Why no longer locate a thank you to assemble the exhaust fumes right into a compressed gasoline cylinder (like an LPG tank - yet in opposite). Then whilst the tank is completed it would desire to be taken to a gasoline station to be positioned right into a greater storage tank. Then the tanker truck which drops off the gasoline can assemble the stored exhaust emissions and take them to a processing plant (possibly geared up on the land earmarked for bio gasoline fields) the place various the risky fumes may be bumped off. the income would be that we are in a position to all force fossil fuelled autos and there are purely some exhaust fumes being embarked on the ambience for that reason reducing pollutants. it truly is as much as Honda and the gasoline companies to iron out the small print, yet you / they make hundreds of thousands of pounds a 2d and that money ought to pass to a pair actual sturdy use.

Answer 4

GROWING wheat or corn for fuel is not the answer. FOR starters you have to use way to much fuel [oil] to make bio fuel. THE only ones that are benefiting from this, are oil Co's and the corp. owned farms.

Answer 5

yes because bio fuels does not pollute thus helping the planet besides natural gas will run out one day so by developing alternatives now is a good idea

Answer 6

there other options that remain unused, in Popular Science I believe it was, a inventor engineered this farm tower that you could grow crops, make electricity, recycle all the water, and all the workers could live in the building i think, and you could build them 50 stories high in any city on the planet.

Answer 7

i think they should grow crops of Poppies.

Answer 8

what is need is to pray that it does not go up( a cent)!

Answer 9

i don't think it's safe. i mean running a car on corn? doesn't sound right to me.