Comments on: HEAT Excerpt #23: Biofuels are a BAD IDEA http://todbrilliant.com/heat-excerpt-23-biofuels-are-a-bad-idea/ Tue, 02 Dec 2008 13:17:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: todb http://todbrilliant.com/heat-excerpt-23-biofuels-are-a-bad-idea/#comment-2005 todb Thu, 24 May 2007 18:12:24 +0000 http://todbrilliant.com/heat-excerpt-23-biofuels-are-a-bad-idea/#comment-2005 <p>I believe you're right, Gail. Rachel Carson would understand that, however quaint it is to run around, say, Sonoma County, using biofuel, when it catches on it won't be possible to use locally-sourced vegetable oil waste products. No, we'll be helping deforest Brazil. </p> <p>I used the same tortilla info in a talk I gave to the Berkeley Gray Panthers last month - sourced from Lester Brown and the Earth Policy Institute, of course.</p> I believe you’re right, Gail. Rachel Carson would understand that, however quaint it is to run around, say, Sonoma County, using biofuel, when it catches on it won’t be possible to use locally-sourced vegetable oil waste products. No, we’ll be helping deforest Brazil.

I used the same tortilla info in a talk I gave to the Berkeley Gray Panthers last month - sourced from Lester Brown and the Earth Policy Institute, of course.

]]> By: Gail http://todbrilliant.com/heat-excerpt-23-biofuels-are-a-bad-idea/#comment-1994 Gail Thu, 24 May 2007 03:43:40 +0000 http://todbrilliant.com/heat-excerpt-23-biofuels-are-a-bad-idea/#comment-1994 <p>And in Mexico the cost of tortillas has increased by 60% due to using corn to make ethanol. </p> <p>Sunday marks Rachel Carson's 100th birthday. She wouldn't like biofuels if she were alive today.</p> And in Mexico the cost of tortillas has increased by 60% due to using corn to make ethanol.

Sunday marks Rachel Carson’s 100th birthday. She wouldn’t like biofuels if she were alive today.

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