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April 22, 2008
Biofuels: The Template for Climate Crisis Solutions
Biofuels give us an idea what we can expect from heavy-handed environmental campaigns. In the name of saving the planet from the nonexistent global warming crisis, the boondoggle has accomplished the following, according to two environmentalists:
- Helped drive up food prices, contributing to a global crisis;
- Led to "increased environmental damage," including dead zones in the Gulf of Mexico so polluted by fertilizer runoff that nothing can live;
- Created "incentives for global deforestation, including in the Amazon basin";
- Reduced U.S. oil consumption by 1% while eating up 25% of our corn production.
If there really were such a thing as carbon-induced global warming, biofuels would be making it worse by leading to the clearing of rainforests, which absorb massive amounts of carbon dioxide.
By now everyone except bureaucrats knows that biofuels are a complete failure. But the boondoggle will roll forward anyway, continuing to wreak havoc on both our standard of living and the environment. Once started, government initiatives are difficult if not impossible to stop, no matter how disastrous.
Taxpayers will still be subsidizing ruinous biofuels when the next catastrophic solution to the imaginary climate crisis is imposed.
On a tip from mega.
Posted by Van Helsing at April 22, 2008 9:28 AM
Comments
Why and HOW did so many people ever believe this scam? A hundred years form now, historians will call the decades from 1990 to 2010 (Maybe later) "The Age Of STUPIDITY".
Posted by: KHarn at April 22, 2008 1:16 PM
What is truly magnificent is the amount of funding going to enviro groups from the feds. Then add in the amount of stupidly spent state money, subsidizing ethanol production...making a product that nobody--in their right mind--would want.
I am required by the state to buy ethanol. I now buy an additional tank for every four I previously purchased. More expensive. Less go. I'm saving neither money or gas...but using more of both.
Great thinking, huh?
Posted by: OregonGuy at April 22, 2008 1:28 PM
KHarn, imho, 100 years from now, no one will even remember the "global warming" hoax by name. The history books will tell of a time 1990-2010 when a complacent, affluent West diddle-dallied around with a wide variety of self-absorbed, imaginary issues to put off the reckoning with the two real problems of the time: Islam's attempt at world conquest and acquisition of nukes, and the voluntary handing over of the keys to Western countries by wave after wave of immigrants. Global warming, if the phrase even still exists in 50 or 100 years, will be thought of like pet rocks and, well, global cooling - frivolous, silly things which people with too much money and time to do amuse themselves in between manning up to the real issues of the day.
Posted by: mega at April 22, 2008 2:50 PM
Again I see the ignorance, biofuels causing increased commodity prices? Show me! Seriously show me the shortages, I still saw a corn pile last year (so much corn you store it outside).
Corn processed for biofuels makes the leftovers better for cattle feed and should make the feed cheaper in theory.
I do agree that biofuels are at best niche type fuel sources. But ethanol is a good thing for gas, it really cleaned it up in a good way without chemicals, plus when was the last time you changed your fuel filter on your car?
Most comic part is linking Washington Post, lol.
Posted by: Parker at April 22, 2008 9:12 PM
MEGA
Sadly, you may be right.
PARKER
So you "...saw a corn pile last year (so much corn you store it outside)" hmm? Where was it bound, the food store, or the refinery? And weren't you the guy who said that a conservative looks at the thermometer outside his window and declares 'global warming' a hoax? (Or was that somebody else?) Also, do the math: alcohol (Or 'ethanol', if you prefer) is LESS efficent than gasoline. Therefore, you must use MORE fuel that has the mix.
Posted by: KHarn at April 23, 2008 2:55 PM
KHarn,
And weren't you the guy who posted on here for pedo pics? (or was that somebody else?) I am joking so don't blow a fuse.
Posted by: Parker at April 23, 2008 8:15 PM
