Are Biofuels Still Economically Feasible?

thefickler writes "With falling gas prices, and the end of capitalism as we know it (otherwise known as the credit crisis), the biofuels industry is not looking as viable as it once was. Indeed biofuel production has fallen well short of expectations, with biofuel companies closing down or reducing production capacity. It appears that the industry's only hope is government support."

Comments

Re:Are the alternatives economically viable?

[Anonymous Coward]

Oh for pete's sake.

There's no such bugaboo as "global warming". Freaking Greenland is still covered in ice. Think about you silly ass.

With the exception of cane sugar alcohol there are no biofuels that are commercially feasible. The whole industry needs to be scrapped and would die an immediate brutal death except for subsidies which keep it alive.

Re:Are the alternatives economically viable?

[Hognoxious]

The amount of energy put into biofuel in the form of fuel to run tractors, transport it to market, etc. exceeds the amount of energy you get out of it.

[citation needed]

Re:They never were

[Markspark]

actually, i would recommend neither. Competing with fuel is just a bad idea, and can lead to food shortage in poor parts of the world. A More feasible solution is celluloic ethanol, i.e. from wood, corn stover, hemp and biogas (methane) from farms. but still this is nowhere near enough, and we need to change the way we think about transportation. And i can't believe that people still argue that there's no global warming. It's sort of like arguing that the earth is 6000 years old..