Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 11/08/2010 8:35:23 AM PST by epithermal
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European plans to promote biofuels will drive farmers to convert 69,000 square km of wild land into fields and plantations, depriving the poor of food and accelerating climate change, a report warned on Monday.
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LMFAO! And the hits just keep on coming.
At what point with the Progressive idiots in this world realize that their 100 year global experiment has increased every negative they sought to decrease and decreased every positive they sought to increase? Up is down, down is up, and the Leftists continue to proceed with their global destruction of wealth, property, personal protection rights, and the greatness of America.
FUBO and all of your friends too!
So the libs continue to push using food crops for fuel (including biodiesel). Soybean yield is 59.2-98.6 gallons/acre-year versus 3000 for algae (non-closed system, non bioengineered strain, thus pond scum)*.
So, tin foil hat time, food based fuels intended to deliberately drive up food prices?
* source http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biodiesel
Great. Massachusetts will require that heating oil contain 5% biofuel starting in 2011. For absolutely no good reason.
Proves John F’ing Kerry right: we are a nation of know-nothings. A least of Commonwealth of know-nothings to repeated return and his lot to office.
psssst,,, NEITHER is bad for the environment. Idiots,,,
I wonder what the presidential hopefuls will campaign on in the Iowa caucuses in 2012. I wouldn't recommend a another deafening reprise of the ethanol subsidy litany.
This information has been available in the US for at least a couple of years. Are the Euroweenies just figuring it out!!???
Global Warming on Free Republic
You forgot to mention they are destroying the planet.
I love it how they say don’t alter the Biofuels policy because the science is uncertain.
LOL, hell of a lot more certain than the whole AGW Theory yet they are willing to upend everyone’s lives for it.
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