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Biofuels Articles

Article:	As Prices Rise, Farmers Spurn Conservation Program - David Streitfield (New York Times)	View Article
Published:	4/9/2008	View Comments (0)
Submitted by:	Frank K 223 days ago	Add Comment
Categories:	Agriculture & Biofuels

Article Details: Thousands of farmers are taking their fields out of the government’s biggest conservation program, which pays them not to cultivate. They are spurning guaranteed annual payments for a chance to cash in on the boom in wheat, soybeans, corn and other crops. Last fall, they took back as many acres as are in Rhode Island and Delaware combined. Environmental and hunting groups are warning that years of progress could soon be lost.

Article:	Food crisis will take hold before climate change, warns chief scientist - James Randerson	View Article
Published:	3/7/2008	View Comments (0)
Submitted by:	Frank K 253 days ago	Add Comment
Categories:	Food & Biofuels

Article Details: Food security and the rapid rise in food prices make up the "elephant in the room" that politicians must face up to quickly. Professor John Beddington said the global rush to grow biofuels was compounding the problem, and cutting down rainforest to produce biofuel crops was "profoundly stupid". It is very hard to see a world growing enough crops to produce renewable energy and at the same time meet the enormous demand for food to alleviate poverty.

Article:	Virgin Flies Biofueled Jet From London	View Article
Published:	2/24/2008	View Comments (0)
Submitted by:	Jason K 268 days ago	Add Comment
Category:	Biofuels

Article Details: Virgin Atlantic carried out the world's first flight of a commercial aircraft powered with biofuel on Sunday in an effort to show it can produce less carbon dioxide than normal jet fuels.

Article:	Biofuels are worsening global warming - Rhett Butler (Mongabay.com)	View Article
Published:	2/7/2008	View Comments (0)
Submitted by:	Frank K 254 days ago	Add Comment
Categories:	Rain Forests & Biofuels

Article Details: Converting rainforests, peatlands, savannas, or grasslands often far outweighs the carbon savings from biofuels resulting in tons of carbon emitted into the atmosphere. If you're trying to mitigate global warming, it simply does not make sense to convert land for biofuels production. Global agriculture is already producing food for six billion people. Producing food-based biofuel, too, will require that still more land be converted to agriculture.

Article:	Corn on the Mob - Patrick J. Michaels (CATO Institute)	View Article
Published:	1/30/2008	View Comments (0)
Submitted by:	Frank K 275 days ago	Add Comment
Category:	Biofuels

Article Details: The 2005 Energy Policy Act mandated that an increasing amount of ethanol be mixed with gasoline, thereby lowering the amount of CO2 we emit. An unintended consequence of the act is rising food prices all over the world, leading to civil unrest in Indonesia. “The sad fact is that Indonesia's unrest is only the slightest foreshock preceding the massive civil earthquake that is going to be unleashed as more and more absurd policies are mandated by the global warming mob.”