Tangentially on topic: An article in TIME (Apr. 7th issue) titled "The Clean Energy Scam" - "Hyped as an eco-friendly fuel, ethanol increases global increases global warming, destroys forests and inflates food prices. So why are we subsidizing it?" Addresses issue of jumping to conclusions too soon, & therefore jumping on the bandwagon too soon. Talking about studies that had been done on ethanol/crop fuels: "There was just one flaw in the calculation: the studies all credited fuel crops for sequestering carbon, but no one checked whether the crops would ultimately replace vegetation and soils that sucked up even more carbon."
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