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Do biofuel policies seek to cut emissions by cutting food?
ScienceDaily.com ^ | 03/27/2015 | Princeton University

Posted on 03/28/2015 8:38:22 AM PDT by aimhigh

A new study found that government biofuel policies rely on reductions in food consumption to generate greenhouse gas savings.

Shrinking the amount of food that people and livestock eat decreases the amount of carbon dioxide that they breathe out or excrete as waste. The reduction in food available for consumption, rather than any inherent fuel efficiency, drives the decline in carbon dioxide emissions in government models, the researchers found.

"Without reduced food consumption, each of the models would estimate that biofuels generate more emissions than gasoline,"

(Excerpt) Read more at sciencedaily.com ...


TOPICS: Government
KEYWORDS: biofuels; food; globalwarming
Looks like we are all going on a diet.
1 posted on 03/28/2015 8:38:22 AM PDT by aimhigh
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To: aimhigh
Shrinking the amount of food that..... livestock eat

No need to read further, this isn't written by a scientist.

It's obviously written by a fool that somehow thinks livestock will go to market just as fast on a reduced diet as those on full feed.

Nice to have the idiot stuff right upfront. Saves time.

2 posted on 03/28/2015 8:43:54 AM PDT by Balding_Eagle (The Gruber Revelations are proof that God is still smiling on America.)
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To: aimhigh

Ha...when global cooling kicks in there won’t be so much grain production....so there will be a lot less cows, sheep, pigs, goats.....and humans.


3 posted on 03/28/2015 8:44:20 AM PDT by spokeshave (He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people,)
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To: aimhigh

So that’s why a box of cereal is about as big as a box of smokes. I thought it was only to try to fool us into believing the low inflation lie.


4 posted on 03/28/2015 8:46:20 AM PDT by MichaelCorleone (Jesus Christ is not a religion. He's the Truth.)
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To: MichaelCorleone

The cereal companies will have to start making the physical flakes smaller so they may be put into the now smaller boxes.

Pretty soon we will be eating powdered cereal dust.


5 posted on 03/28/2015 8:51:55 AM PDT by alloysteel (It isn't science, it's law. Rational thought does not apply.)
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To: aimhigh

This fits right in with UN Agenda 21’s goal of killing-off 6.5 billion excess human beings.


6 posted on 03/28/2015 8:56:42 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (If obama speaks and th<uere is no one there to hear it, is it still a lie?)
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To: aimhigh
Killing everybody by starving them to death is a great strategy.

Start with yourselves! Or have a bullet for lunch.

7 posted on 03/28/2015 8:56:56 AM PDT by MaxMax (Call the local GOP and ask how you can support CRUZ for POTUS, Make them talk!)
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To: aimhigh

Biofuel policies seek ti milk the taxpayer and consumer of giga-dollars to the benefit of politicians and rentseeking oligarchical parasites.


8 posted on 03/28/2015 9:12:58 AM PDT by Paine in the Neck (Socialism consumes EVERYTHING)
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To: Balding_Eagle

He wrote it inartfully, the author could have stated that reduced feed for livestock results in higher prices for feed, resulting in lower numbers of livestock raised. He probably assumed that the reader would be intelligent enough to know this.

Your assertion that the author implied the same number of livestock would continue to be raised is far more specious than anything the author wrote. So perhaps you should reconsider who is a fool, and what is and isn’t “idiot stuff”.


9 posted on 03/28/2015 9:16:45 AM PDT by Go_Raiders (Freedom doesn't give you the right to take from others, no matter how innocent your program sounds.)
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To: Balding_Eagle

Or the assumption that biofuels leads to less fodder for livestock and thus fewer livestock overall.


10 posted on 03/28/2015 9:17:24 AM PDT by tbw2
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To: aimhigh

The emissions would either come out of you...the cow...or a tail pipe.
Don’t see that anything would be cut except the number of farts.
The slogan for us right wingers opposed to biofuel....More Farts.


11 posted on 03/28/2015 9:17:25 AM PDT by jcon40
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To: Balding_Eagle

Because, ya know, the world really needs more carbs, sugars and fats that biofuel is made from.


12 posted on 03/28/2015 9:20:45 AM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: aimhigh

the exact same amount of carbon is turned into carbondioxide by burning it in a gasoline engine or burning it in a biological engine this entire premise is foolish, and a good example why government spending on social issues is also foilish.


13 posted on 03/28/2015 9:36:55 AM PDT by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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To: MaxMax

Perhaps that has a lot to do with the lack of nutrition in processed foods? Lots of calories so you die fat.


14 posted on 03/28/2015 9:39:34 AM PDT by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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To: American in Israel

The whole concept of CO2 as a pollutant is a lie.
The whole concept of freon destroying the ozone layer is a lie.
The whole concept of budget cuts is a lie.
Anything presented by the RATagansists is a lie.


15 posted on 03/28/2015 9:41:26 AM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves Month")
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To: aimhigh

Oh, so Michelle starving the school children is not enough? Now corn will be made into ethanol, even though it causes more pollution and ruins engines? Didn’t Stalin starve 50,000,000 citizens, because they would not go along with his policies? And what was the need for ethanol in the first place? To stop the use of fossil fuels? This administration is trying to kill us, one way or the other. Wake up America!


16 posted on 03/28/2015 9:45:05 AM PDT by abclily
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To: American in Israel
I cannot imagine how unhealthy people actually feel from eating processed junk.
Can't live forever but living with a healthy well-being is priceless.
17 posted on 03/28/2015 2:33:58 PM PDT by MaxMax (Call the local GOP and ask how you can support CRUZ for POTUS, Make them talk!)
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