Did anyone see tonights network news.? I did want to pos to the forum butit was interesting. Seems some of those who have been pushing bio-fuel forgot to place in their model the effects of turning land into bio-fuel. You can read the entire article on the nbc.com website as reported by Brian Willaims and then download the scientic paper written by the original author who pushed for it.
The basic premise is that by using land for bio-fuel,, specifically corn and some crops in South America actually raises the carbo by 20% an would take 48 years to break even.
On the same piece a bio-fuel spoksman defended the original proposal but their model was off, and did not take into account food costs.
If you get a chance, take a few min and read the pdf file. I am not taking sides bt found that the annoucement somewhat startlng