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Burning issue: Are biofuels answer to cutting down emissions from cars?



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IN A few weeks' time, every fuel company in the UK will be obliged to include a certain amount of biofuel in their petrol and diesel supplies.

This is because, to comply with European Union policies, the government has decreed we will all be usi...



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  • Last Updated: 24 March 2008 9:28 PM
  • Source: The Scotsman
  • Location: Edinburgh
  • Related Topics: Climate change
 
1

Unimpressed one,

25/03/2008 09:56:03
Well this is rich! The green loons telling us not to take the green route and an oil company telling us to use biofuels to "save the planet". You couldn't make this stuff up.
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Neil,

Glasgow 25/03/2008 10:05:06
Bio-fuels are currently just a method of providing more hidden subsidy to farmers & the civil servants who run the system.

There may well, in the near future, be a financially viable (ie non-subsidised) bio-fuel industry based on GM engineered crops, algae or microbes which turn CO2 & water directly into oil. At which point all the subsidy demanding, peak oil fearing, "environmentalists" will denounce it as the work of the devil, or scientists whichever is worse.

In any case the catastrophic warming we are all supposed to be suffering from & which is the justification for subsidising this industry is visibly failing to appear.

All we know for sure is that both parties to this "debate" are going to demand more subsidy from us.
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Alternative (High Octane) Fuel Head,

Edinburgh 25/03/2008 10:14:00
They are asking the wrong question.

The correct question is "Are biofuels answer to cutting down the use of fossil fuels?" To which the answer is of course "YES".

How the hell are we supposed to understand the potential problems of the future if we do not ask the right questions about it?

 

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