Biofuels have a detrimental impact? What about the coal and oil-based system we have now? Are we not doing damage to the planet by using mountaintop removal for coal and drilling deep underground for oil?
"There are many different types of biofuels and it's key that the ones we use provide the best greenhouse gas savings and are produced in ways that are good for people and the environment," Dianna Bowles of the Royal Society's biofuels working group said in response to the EAC report.
Algae has been proven to be a great source of fuel, as well as hemp and switchgrass to name a few.
The EAC doesn't want to move forward with biofuel production, but the Royal Society (Science Academy) seems to be using their brains and not thinking with their pocketbooks.
The EAC report said a large biofuel industry based on current technology is likely to increase food prices and could damage food security in developing countries.
Research is under way to develop so-called second generation biofuels which would use waste products rather than food commodities. The committee noted that these technologies are some years away.
However, there is good news in this report:
Britain's National Farmers Union rejected the conclusions.
It seems the farmers are more intelligent than the government gives them credit. They actually know what's going on, go figure. A farmer knows more about reality than a politician.
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