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H2Blondie 02-09-2008 06:41 PM

Ethanol study Al Gore doesn't want to see...
 
Unbelievably this was in the liberal USA Today...

"The other studies missed a key factor that everyone agrees should have been included, the land use changes that actually are going to increase greenhouse gas emissions," said Tim Searchinger, a research scholar at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and lead author of the study.


The study said that after taking into account expected worldwide land-use changes, corn-based ethanol, instead of reducing greenhouse gases by 20%, will increases it by 93% compared to using gasoline over a 30-year period. Biofuels from switchgrass, if they replace croplands and other carbon-absorbing lands, would result in 50% more greenhouse gas emissions, the researchers concluded.

For the entire story: http://www.usatoday.com/weather/climate/globalwarming/2008-02-08-ethanol-study_N.htm?csp=34

Agriv8r 02-09-2008 07:18 PM

Re: Ethanol study Al Gore doesn't want to see...
 
say it isn't so....

mdoyle 02-09-2008 09:05 PM

Interesting article on biofuels
 
Turns out they are worse for the environment than regular oil:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/08/science/earth/08wbiofuels.html?em&ex=1202706000&en=d42cfa6f14c01 268&ei=5087

wpage 02-09-2008 11:57 PM

Re: Ethanol study Al Gore doesn't want to see...
 
Better to use corn to make hootch:beerchug: !


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