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Biofuels do more harm than good, UN warns
The Telegraph (UK) ^ | March 23, 2014 | Robert Mendick

Posted on 03/24/2014 4:57:32 PM PDT by QT3.14

The United Nations will officially warn that growing crops to make “green” biofuel harms the environment and drives up food prices, The Telegraph can disclose.

A leaked draft of a UN report condemns the widespread use of biofuels made from crops as a replacement for petrol and diesel. It says that biofuels, rather than combating the effects of global warming, could make them worse.

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: agitprop; corn; ethanol; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; greenenergy; ipcc; opec; un; unitednations
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To: QT3.14

Duh! Takes tax subsidies and government edicts to keep this do gooder hoax jammed down our throats. Vote it out of existence.


21 posted on 03/24/2014 5:49:09 PM PDT by Recompennation (Constitutional protection for all not ju st selectively for Democrats.)
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To: QT3.14

I have been opposed to ethanol from the start. I just don’t like the idea of having the production of fuel compete with the production of bourbon.


22 posted on 03/24/2014 5:51:01 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Obamacare: You can't make an omelette without breaking a few eggs.)
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To: QT3.14

Bought and paid for by Oil Industry worldwide
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Nobody has yet to die for a gallon of ethanol...
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23 posted on 03/24/2014 5:55:28 PM PDT by sbark
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To: Sacajaweau
My local farmer says that the corn farmers make out as they play the market, too.

Even though farming has become much more profitable in recent years (2014 may be the turnaround), very few farmers have enough money to play the markets. Most use futures markets as a required tool for marketing their crops.

Using futures as a tool is very different than playing the market, as the contracts are based on actual crop in the bin, or the estimated actual crop to be harvested.

Your farmer friend may be one of the few very wealthy who can afford to lose money in the commodity markets.

24 posted on 03/24/2014 5:56:33 PM PDT by Balding_Eagle (Over production, one of the top 5 worries for the American Farmer every year.)
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To: boycott

Iowa does not have a presidential primary, only a casual, non-binding preference poll during local party meetings. No candidate gets anything for winning that straw vote.


25 posted on 03/24/2014 6:02:26 PM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: QT3.14

Of course it’s a bad idea, but the market should decide that, not the UN.


26 posted on 03/24/2014 6:04:49 PM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: snoringbear

“..I’ve been wondering for some time why this stuff isn’t being harvested.”

The EPA & a half dozen other federal agencies are just waiting for someone to try.


27 posted on 03/24/2014 6:12:48 PM PDT by Twotone (Marte Et Clypeo)
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To: TBall

Yep... I’m having to rethink everything now... LOL


28 posted on 03/24/2014 6:27:01 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Immigration Reform is job NONE. It isn't even the leading issue with Hipanics. Enforce our laws.)
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To: QT3.14
Well, the UN says it so it has to be true.

Death to bio-fuel promoters!!! Earf destroyers must die.

;^)

29 posted on 03/24/2014 6:32:15 PM PDT by TigersEye (Stupid is a Progressive disease.)
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To: QT3.14

No S*_¥ Sherlock
That’s been the aurgument about ethanol bio-crap from the start!
Oh wait, is this satire?!/S


30 posted on 03/24/2014 7:00:34 PM PDT by 9422WMR (: " Tolerance is the virtue of a man who has no convictions".)
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To: jjotto

No candidate gets anything for winning that straw vote.


You’re correct. It’s not a primary. It’s a caucus.

The candidates do get something out of winning the Iowa causus. They win there and their candidacy gains momentum. Iowa and New Hampshire have more say about who our presidential nominees are going to be than any other states. In fact, it is usually long decided before I ever get a chance to cast my vote.


31 posted on 03/24/2014 7:21:57 PM PDT by boycott
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To: QT3.14
Please pull your head out of your a##. Corn for ethanol was the best thing they could come up with as a preset failure. Hemp would give the U.S. on just our marginal farm land all the bio diesel we need. It burns clean and would all be made in America without lose of any food crops. It would be no business of the U.N. and we could tell them to bugger off. And the new diesel engines get better mileage and are cleaner then gas engines. The American people have been screwed by big oil for so long they like it.
32 posted on 03/24/2014 7:34:35 PM PDT by lostboy61 (Lock and Load and stand your ground!)
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To: Twotone

““..I’ve been wondering for some time why this stuff isn’t being harvested.”

“The EPA & a half dozen other federal agencies are just waiting for someone to try.”

Do you mean as “better not or you will be arrested”? Or, as “good, we encourage you to do this”?


33 posted on 03/25/2014 2:51:35 AM PDT by snoringbear (E.oGovernment is the Pimp,)
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To: QT3.14

We’ve been pointing this out for years here at Free Republic. Glad to see the UN catching up.


34 posted on 03/25/2014 3:08:41 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: snoringbear

“Do you mean as “better not or you will be arrested”? Or, as “good, we encourage you to do this”?”

I mean as “better not or you will be arrested”. I’m sure the enviros have identified some endangered plankton out there.


35 posted on 03/25/2014 7:57:37 AM PDT by Twotone (Marte Et Clypeo)
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To: Twotone

“I mean as “better not or you will be arrested”. I’m sure the enviros have identified some endangered plankton out there.”

You’re probably right. Those whack jobs won’t be satisfied till we are all riding bicycles and using outhouses. Wish we would regain both houses with bullet proof majorities and get POTUS too. And dissolve the EPA. But, guess I’m smoking rope, metaphorically speaking, lol !


36 posted on 03/25/2014 8:15:01 AM PDT by snoringbear (E.oGovernment is the Pimp,)
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To: boycott

So, based on what kind of fake hype the MSM indulges in, Iowa neighborhood meetings should be cancelled? Maybe the Koch brothers and Sheldon Adelson should be prevented from making campaign contributions because there’s plenty of fake hype there too.

Let’s just go to a single-day nationwide primary where no candidate without $20 million before the process starts has a chance to be heard. That’ll show those GOP-Eers!


37 posted on 03/26/2014 4:48:12 AM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: jjotto

Exactly. We need to be consistent. It is government intervention that causes the problem. The market kills bad ideas pretty quickly and effectively. If a bad idea can be fixed and improved the market does that as well.


38 posted on 03/26/2014 6:02:46 AM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: SunkenCiv

Correct. Scarcity is the steady state of nature. Human beings solve that via free market transactions. Shortages are caused by government.


39 posted on 03/26/2014 6:05:08 AM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: QT3.14

Yes. We know. We brought that up when idiots first started talking about using food for fuel.

Does no one value common sense any more?


40 posted on 03/26/2014 6:18:25 AM PDT by Dead Corpse (Tre Norner eg ber, binde til rota...)
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