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Quote by: New Scientist Producing biofuel is not a "green process". It requires tractors and fertilisers and land, all of which means burning fossil fuels to make "green" fuel. In the case of bioethanol produced from corn – an alternative to oil – "it's essentially a zero-sums game," says Ghislaine Kieffer, programme manager for Latin America at the International Energy Agency in Paris, France. |
Right. It's being dressed up in green, but it ain't. It's no more
renewable than petroleum.
By the way, nuclear power also requires gargantuan petroleum inputs.
The fact we'll eventually have to face is that, in Margaret Thatcher's immortal words, there's no such thing as a free lunch.