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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."
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%
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You environmental hippies are so blind that it is sick. This man-made global warming propaganda is to push for carbon taxes and high prices are pathetic excuses for alternatives. I am not saying all alternatives are stupid and/or pointless but now we have all these so-called experts pulling solutions out of their collective asses and the lobbyists saying "YES YES YES" if they can pull it off. If people did less scambling to find some half-assed solution that will cost everyone in the end while denying developing countries the ability to...develop then perhaps we can have sensible alternatives that can be gradually adjusted into the commonplace. Human caused Global Warming is the new Holocaust without reason. Question humanity's role on Global Warming and you are pretty much a terrorist. I wonder if it is just because Bush wasn't on the band wagon that these quasi-democrats who talk about green everything while living in their upper middle class purgatory are just blindly for it. I know it's the cool thing to
If you nitwits in "developing countries" wouldn't breed like god damned rabbits and not overpopulate the earth, you could live like Americans. Hey India and China, bring your population down to reasonable levels before you bitch about not being able to live like Americans. Same goes for you stuffed up Eurotrash countries as well... get your population level per sq/km the same as the US before you start bitching about being able to live as extravagantly as Americans.
I'm sick of hearing about how Americans consume so much of this and that compared to the rest of the world... Well shit, of course we consume more per person than the rest of the world... we only have a tiny fraction of the population. If the rest of the world brought their numbers into check, they too would easily be able to live extravagantly. Blame your poverty on your population and your inability to use effective birth control as opposed to bitching about what someone else has. But... shit, it's easier to blame someone else for your problems, instead of solving the local immediate problem of overpopulation.
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