While at University, I studied Agribusiness and thus made to complete courses in Crop, Dairy, and Water Sciences -to name a few. During an Organic Agriculture course, as we spoke on growing Corn for Ethanol and using veggie products for blending with Diesel or on it's own as B100 biodiesel, a rancher's son spoke up about the deficiencies matched with the demands put on production of crop-based fuels. He'd lived and worked his family farm since birth and contended that Biofuel crops create carbon dioxide pollution equalled to the carbon emissions of oil use---through crop production and harvest systems!
HHMMM...Well, the lesson I take away from his insights are aligned with my own....only....my perspective is this:
Don't rely on one source for everything...Diversify...Yeah...BioFuel is not THE answer...it's ONE of the solutions...Hydrogen and Solar are options too....we all just need to continue to keep open to new and alternative sciences, technologies, and suggestions!
Buy locally, Think Globally...purchase from your local ma and pop shops and make sure that they practice Social Responsibility.
Read what MSNBC is saying about relying solely on Biofuels:
While saying bioenergy represents an “extraordinary opportunity” to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, it warned that “rapid growth in liquid biofuel production will make substantial demands on the world’s land and water resources at a time when demand for both food and forest products is also rising rapidly.”
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