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Re: Are Biofuels the Answer?

Re: Are Biofuels the Answer?

Submitted by ctyankee on Sun, 01/06/2008 - 12:01.

It's impossible to require bio-fuel to compete with anything. 

Competition arises when the options presented cause a prudent consumer to evaluate the choices.  Nothing else is competition, nothing else can impose it.  By 'options' I'm referring to *value* there can be and are other options possible too.  Keep reading...

Governments can enforce subsidies to make things *seem* competitive even when they're not.  The bio-fuel people *want* it to compete with petroleum, it does not.

It's possible to legislate any type of absurdity... In CT we can't buy 'package' alcohol on Sunday, but bars & restaurants are just fine.  Why? Just load up on Saturday!

On a per person basis, tobacco is consumed at a rate measured in lb/year, foods in lb/day, and fuel in tons/hour... A few hundred acres of CT shade tobacco meets the world demand fro that product.  Millions of acres of super-crops converted to EToH wouldn't even keep the cars in CT running without shortages.

These are the facts.  Food for fuel only works on the isolated farm, as it has for millenia... It doesn't scale into the modern world; yet, or as it's is being implemented now.  It might someday... Smiling

But the only thing we get today is inflated food prices.  Dairy farmers compete with Exxon & BP for "corn calories" to convert into "EToh" or "MILK"  Notice: The corn growers are shopping for dollars ($$$) and paying with corn(food).  [See note on competition above.]  That's what makes the price of food rise and follow the price of fuel. 

I'll keep this short. 

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Are Biofuels the Answer? By: Charley (49 replies) Wed, 04/11/2007 - 20:14