Biofuels Coming With a High Environmental Price?

DurandalTree writes "With the spectre of global warming on the horizon, biofuels have been touted as the solution to motor vehicles' greenhouse gas emissions. But with biodiesel use on the increase, it appears a distinctively environmentally unfriendly footprint is being left behind by some of its prime sources; affected food prices are surging out of reach of the poor and rainforests are being destroyed to create larger plantations."

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Diesel (bio or not) is full of sulphur dioxide, et

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You ever see a rig take off from a light? That big black plume of smoke coming out of the stack is 100% shit.

Diesel engines are pollutin' machines. The industry just shifted the focus on "carbon", and morons buy it.

Remember acid rain? I guess that's not an issue anymore

We'd have never had a gasoline economy if the tea totallers had allowed Ford to build his first cars to run on ethanol. We never will, for the same reason. So there's some food for thought. We're too fucking uptight to let people under 21 buy alcohol, even if it is for their car. Closest we'll get is 85%