Given that world food prices are at all time high, when or will bio fuel production be dropped?

all-time high
ape creature of the Indus. asked:

Isn’t simply a case of restoring the balance, since the introduction of bio fuels has caused a lack of supply in certain areas or is it something else?
France is more or less 90% nuclear, given the “T” threat are nuclear power plants a good idea? Not necessarily.



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4 Responses to 'Given that world food prices are at all time high, when or will bio fuel production be dropped?'

  1. harleylovinchelley - October 7th, 2008 at 1:31 am

    Its coming around. There ARE too many edible crops being turned into fuel.

    But there is an inventer/entrepreneur who has come up with something amazing. He used big plastic sheets that have tubes in them. He hung them up like big, tall curtains and pumped algae through the tubes. The plastic is clear to allow sunlight in. His greenhouse is in New Mexico and he insists he can grow 10000 gallons of biodiesel per acre, per year. That far exceeds the best yield of soybeans and other crops. It is estimated that only 10% of the land in New Mexico could produce enough biodiesel to replace all the petroleum diesel needed to run trucks, buses, and trains. He chose New Mexico because of the great amount of sunlight. The algae has to have a lot of sunlight to grow fast.
    Think I’ll start looking for a diesel powered Mercedes or VW.
    I can’t testify as to what the algae biod is like, but I know the soybean biod smells like french fries cooking.

  2. waisonline - October 10th, 2008 at 6:14 am

    bio fuels arent advanced enough to be of any use to anyone right now.

    we need to bite the bullet and use nuclear energy.

  3. karazyal - October 10th, 2008 at 7:29 pm

    Not soon enough! Using corn to make alcohol which is added to gasoline is one of the most inefficient sources of energy for motor vehicles!

    We have oil off our coasts, we have oil in Alaska and we have huge deposits of coal which can be converted into fuel – but because of politics we can’t use any of these sources!

    I think it is a conspiracy instigated by the liberal members of congress to ***** with our economy and blame it on President Bush!

    Without cheap oil transportation is more expensive, that extra expense is pushed off on us when we purchase anything! It’s nice to have clean air and use “green alternatives” for energy needs – but none of this stuff will be really useful for 20 or 30 years!

    We will always need petroleum in some form to keep our economy rolling! What we also need is politicians who have the guts to insist on oil drilling in Alaska, construction of refineries and gasification of coal!

  4. scrooge - October 11th, 2008 at 4:37 am

    when they start dieing by the millions of hunger in the under developed countries.


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