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Biofuels Deemed a Greenhouse Threat

[mindmetoo]

Anyone who advocates corn as the main source of bio fuel is insane. There's so much organic waste produced by industry and agriculture, that's the real source of bio fuel. And that's carbon neutral (within error bars).

The only reason corn is advocated in the USA is the corn lobby is powerful and sees a new market. I think it kind of worked like: farms produced an excess of corn so the government bought up corn. What to do with all that surplus corn in the 70s and 80s? Oh hey, gasahol. Now of course corn has found a bunch of other markets. Corn is cheap (because of government hand outs) so food makers use it in place of can sugar, food filler, etc. I don't think there's a lot of excess corn produced these days like there was in the '70s and '80s. However, if the government dropped the hand out, corn would go back to its market price and would be less attractive to food makers.

[Ya-ta Boy]

Sidebar:

The way to reduce the amount of corn being produced in Iowa (the #1 or #2 producer) is to adopt daylight savings time. This would reduce the amount of sunlight in the summer when the corn is growing and return it to the farms in the winter, when the corn is not growing.





This was a real argument when daylight savings time was being debated. It was a Commie plot.

[khyber]

Biofuels are also having a very serious deleterious affect on food prices in poorer countries as demand drives prices up and the poor can no longer afford corn, maize, etc. Aid organization also take a HUGE hit on how much they can afford to buy (the money that previously bought 30tonnes of corn, now buys 20, etc...)

[jkelly80]

[mistermasan]

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