Now that wheat is being used for feul instead of feeding poeple is it time to scrape this bio-diesel idea?
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2007-11-01 11:22:56 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Environment ➔ Global Warming
I only used beer as an attention getter.
I still don't believe in MAN MADE gw, but I do support the speed limits being reduced to help conserve fuel thereby redusing emmitions and consumtion.
2007-11-01 11:43:49 · update #1
I agree with Trevor on this one. In addition, using biofuels often takes a great deal of energy to manufacture when you take everything into account especially corn and wheat.
2007-11-01 12:03:07 · answer #1 · answered by JimZ 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Your link has been truncated so can't read the article.
Bio-diesel (and other bio-fuels) aren't as wonderful as some people make them out to be. To produce enough fuel for them to be viable utilises huge areas of land, this means that agricultural land that was once used for more conventional crops is turned over to the production of bio-diesel. At the same time, large expanses of forests, including the tropical rain-forests, are being cleared to make way for planting bio crops.
It's not only beer that is going to cost more but probably a whole range of products that include cereal crops. What we should be doing is looking at the most beneficial ways to utilise the limited amount of land that is available and this means radically rethinking the way we farm.
Crop yields can be greatly increased leaving enough land available for bio crops but this isn't going to happen for quite some time yet.
2007-11-01 11:33:55 · answer #2 · answered by Trevor 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Ethanol added to gasoline is a boondoggle to make the midwestern farmers happy. It encourages the use of farmland for maize as a foodstock. This increases the demand and thus the price for maize. In turn, this raises the price of other grains. Other sources of foodstock, such as switchgrass and sugarcane, might require less energy to process and have a positive, rather than negative environmental impact.
2007-11-02 03:47:12 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
NO !!!
It´s time to scrap 13MPG SUV´s !!!!
Why chose why we can have both fuel for transportation and food? The only condition is to do it in an efficient manner.
The price linkage between food and energy crops is unavoidable.
2007-11-01 11:33:43 · answer #4 · answered by NLBNLB 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋