And they are editorializing on something the BLOGGERS have been pointing out for a LONG TIME!
"Well, besides using up food crops and driving up food prices, producing a far less energetic fuel that you have to buy and burn more of to get the same work, and setting aside the fact that ethanol fuel destroys the engine gaskets in the fuel system, what's to doubt? I mean, it's not like biofuel was supposed to actually work; it's just another sounds-good-on-TV not-quite-thought-all-the-way-through jingo for political campaigns." -- Mike Rivero of whatreallyhappened.com
PFFFFFFFFFTTTT, BG!!!!
"Fuel for thought July 14, 2008
EUROPEAN OFFICIALS have the foresight and flexibility to admit that the world's romance with biofuels is going sour. Why can't the United States do the same?
Evidence is mounting that farming to meet the demand for biofuel feedstocks - mostly corn, soybeans, and sugar cane - is contributing to rising world food prices and deforestation. And the energy needed to produce fuel from food can cause a net increase in carbon emissions.
Translation: Ethanol CONTRIBUTES to CLIMATE CHANGE, folks!!!
Just as the BLOGS SAID!
Yup, the same people who brought about this debacle based on their BULLSHIT are the ones who are going to fix the problem now!
Well, NO THANKS, SHIT SUCKERS!!!!!!!!!!
Faced with the facts, the Europeans didn't flinch. By contrast, the US Congress refuses to reconsider the mandates set out in the 2007 energy bill, which requires that 36 billion gallons of biofuels be produced each year by 2022. Already, a quarter of the US corn crop goes to biofuels, but there is no legislative vehicle on the horizon to revisit the overall mandates.
US Representative James McGovern of Worcester has been pressing for hearings on the issue. McGovern, who is also chairman of the Congressional Hunger Caucus, fears the rush to corn ethanol already has created its own political constituency. "It's a delicate question," he said in an interview. "How do we get to energy independence without creating a new problem?"
Last week the Massachusetts House passed a bill to promote efficient celluosic biofuels, with tax breaks and mandates beginning in 2010. It's a more thoughtful way to encourage alternative fuels."Oh, so the Globe is STILL FOR BIOFUELS, despite the mess they have created!
Talk about pushing an agenda!!
They want the biofuels for when the 80% population reduction has been achieved, folks!
WAKE UP!
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Also see: The Boston Globe Has Shit For Brains
