Re: Are Biofuels the Answer?

The article is absolutely wrong.

The notion that biofuels compete with food crops is completely bogus. We already have enough surplus to feed the whole world over.. it is political and market problems that cause hunger, not lack of food.

Also, biofuels produced from surplus crops is just that.. SURPLUS. It would have gone into fills or dumped in the ocean if not converted to fuel.

If you WANT to grow biofuel then you wouldn't grow food crops anyway.. the best temperate climate crop is a variety of rapeseed that is mildly poisonous to humans but is very hardy, uses little water and puts out more oil. You can grow these sorts of crops in marginal land that is useless for food.

Thirdly, Algae biofuel looks VERY promising as a substitute for crude.. the potential for producing truly vast amounts of oil is there, as soon as they solve the contamination problem. Once that is done, you could produce enough oil to feed the world its CURRENT diet of fuel on something like 35 million acres (Utah is 50 million acres).. truly a tiny amount of land, considering.

Check the biofuels section here:
http://journeytoforever.org