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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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About time!
1 posted on 03/24/2014 4:57:32 PM PDT by QT3.14
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To: QT3.14

Take that, US enviroweenies.


2 posted on 03/24/2014 4:58:37 PM PDT by beethovenfan (If Islam is the solution, the "problem" must be freedom.)
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To: QT3.14

This was obvious from the start.


3 posted on 03/24/2014 5:00:58 PM PDT by hoosierham (Freedom isn't free)
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To: QT3.14

Wow, I actually agree with the UN on something!


4 posted on 03/24/2014 5:01:18 PM PDT by TBall
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Actually, I think this reeks of oil company pr efforts. The UN is a wholly owned subsidiary of the 1% just as the US congress is.


5 posted on 03/24/2014 5:02:53 PM PDT by Veto! (Opinions freely dispensed as advice)
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This will prompt serious strife among the greenies. What to do? What to do?
6 posted on 03/24/2014 5:02:57 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: QT3.14

Iowa is the 1st primary state. If a candidate loses badly there, it’s an uphill challenge.

My guess is they will have all the presidential candidates lined up to stand behind their corn subsidies.


7 posted on 03/24/2014 5:03:14 PM PDT by boycott
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The best biofuel is made from algae. It not only consumes carbon and nitrous oxides, but then is a pretty easy to process into biodiesel. First squeeze out the oil, then mix it with ethanol in the presence of a lye catalyst. Filter, then add 1% petroleum diesel as a preservative.


8 posted on 03/24/2014 5:03:33 PM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy (WoT News: Rantburg.com)
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This is really maddening. My local farmer says that the corn farmers make out as they play the market, too.

I didn't even buy corn on the cob this year. And I can hardly remember the last time I had a good steak.

9 posted on 03/24/2014 5:13:34 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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And I can hardly remember the last time I had a good steak.

I am becoming a vegetarian . . and not by choice. I cast furtive longing looks at the meat aisle until the prices come into focus and I trudge on.

10 posted on 03/24/2014 5:18:48 PM PDT by BipolarBob
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To: QT3.14

When are people going to realize that environmentalists do not care about the environment. They care about how being an environmentalist makes them feel and how it can be used to further the socialist agenda.


11 posted on 03/24/2014 5:19:23 PM PDT by rey
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OMG! I was just hit by a flying pig!


12 posted on 03/24/2014 5:20:27 PM PDT by Gen.Blather
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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy

“The best biofuel is made from algae. It not only consumes carbon and nitrous oxides, but then is a pretty easy to process into biodiesel. First squeeze out the oil, then mix it with ethanol in the presence of a lye catalyst. Filter, then add 1% petroleum diesel as a preservative.”

Agree. And, there is a huge dead zone of the stuff out in the Gulf just south of the Mississippi River estuary. I’ve been wondering for some time why this stuff isn’t being harvested.


13 posted on 03/24/2014 5:26:01 PM PDT by snoringbear (E.oGovernment is the Pimp,)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
More BS from the OPEC-dominated United Nations.
...drives up food prices...
No it doesn't, $100 a barrel oil maintains high food prices, along with the price of pretty much everything else. Any nation that can't feed itself has a leftist gov't, or a regime that is corrupt in some other way, and guess what, the sooner these supposedly starving millions starve to death, the sooner their hunger problem will vanish. That would be a hard-hearted thing to say, but it isn't because food costs have nothing to do with starvation. Starvation results from policies of politicians who don't answer to us.
14 posted on 03/24/2014 5:31:36 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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The most efficient way to use bio fuels is to burn it in a power generating plant.
Any kind of processing it into another kind of fuel will take more energy than it's worth.
Algae, grass, inedible and junk plants and most of all WOOD are excellent renewable resources to boot.
But anything good enough to be economically feasible, the greens will find some reason to be against it anyway.

15 posted on 03/24/2014 5:32:32 PM PDT by BitWielder1 (Corporate Profits are better than Government Waste)
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To: snoringbear

Not all algae are equal. There are just a few select types whose oil content is around 50% or better.


16 posted on 03/24/2014 5:35:03 PM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy (WoT News: Rantburg.com)
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17 posted on 03/24/2014 5:35:43 PM PDT by Rodamala
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No! Really? Are you kidding? Burning food is not a good idea for saving the environment? Who would have guessed? Besides everybody with functioning intellect above IQ 45, who else? You mean MENSA didn't have this one whipped years ago.? Huh. Goes to show you that given enough time the obvious becomes, well, obvious. Now will they be able to make the radical leap that India and China combined far outstrips the meager pollution this country may produce.
18 posted on 03/24/2014 5:36:31 PM PDT by cashless (Obama told us he would side with Muslims if the political winds shifted in an ugly direction. Ready?)
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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy

I prefer 20% biodiesel in my F250. The mileage went up about 3% when I switched, and I worry a lot less about my fuel pump and injectors knowing how much more lubricity biodiesel has.

And the fuel doesn’t stink up my hands and clothes.


19 posted on 03/24/2014 5:40:12 PM 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: QT3.14

Well, duh!


20 posted on 03/24/2014 5:47:02 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Obamacare: You can't make an omelette without breaking a few eggs.)
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