Posted on 03/24/2014 4:57:32 PM PDT by QT3.14
The United Nations will officially warn that growing crops to make “green” biofuel harms the environment and drives up food prices, The Telegraph can disclose.
A leaked draft of a UN report condemns the widespread use of biofuels made from crops as a replacement for petrol and diesel. It says that biofuels, rather than combating the effects of global warming, could make them worse.
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Take that, US enviroweenies.
This was obvious from the start.
Wow, I actually agree with the UN on something!
Actually, I think this reeks of oil company pr efforts. The UN is a wholly owned subsidiary of the 1% just as the US congress is.
Iowa is the 1st primary state. If a candidate loses badly there, it’s an uphill challenge.
My guess is they will have all the presidential candidates lined up to stand behind their corn subsidies.
The best biofuel is made from algae. It not only consumes carbon and nitrous oxides, but then is a pretty easy to process into biodiesel. First squeeze out the oil, then mix it with ethanol in the presence of a lye catalyst. Filter, then add 1% petroleum diesel as a preservative.
I didn't even buy corn on the cob this year. And I can hardly remember the last time I had a good steak.
I am becoming a vegetarian . . and not by choice. I cast furtive longing looks at the meat aisle until the prices come into focus and I trudge on.
When are people going to realize that environmentalists do not care about the environment. They care about how being an environmentalist makes them feel and how it can be used to further the socialist agenda.
OMG! I was just hit by a flying pig!
“The best biofuel is made from algae. It not only consumes carbon and nitrous oxides, but then is a pretty easy to process into biodiesel. First squeeze out the oil, then mix it with ethanol in the presence of a lye catalyst. Filter, then add 1% petroleum diesel as a preservative.”
Agree. And, there is a huge dead zone of the stuff out in the Gulf just south of the Mississippi River estuary. I’ve been wondering for some time why this stuff isn’t being harvested.
...drives up food prices...No it doesn't, $100 a barrel oil maintains high food prices, along with the price of pretty much everything else. Any nation that can't feed itself has a leftist gov't, or a regime that is corrupt in some other way, and guess what, the sooner these supposedly starving millions starve to death, the sooner their hunger problem will vanish. That would be a hard-hearted thing to say, but it isn't because food costs have nothing to do with starvation. Starvation results from policies of politicians who don't answer to us.
Not all algae are equal. There are just a few select types whose oil content is around 50% or better.
I prefer 20% biodiesel in my F250. The mileage went up about 3% when I switched, and I worry a lot less about my fuel pump and injectors knowing how much more lubricity biodiesel has.
And the fuel doesn’t stink up my hands and clothes.
Well, duh!
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