Thats only true if all the available ground is being used to grow food for eating. If there is land sitting fallow it could be used for fuel production.
I for instance have acreage that could be used for fuel production which isn't. Soybeans don't get grown in northern Maine, I dunno if the ground is unsuitable or if its just a lack of soybean growing tradition but theres got to be another oil crop (sunflowers?) we could grow... -Curt Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2011 21:46:29 -0500 From: Allan Streib <str...@cs.indiana.edu> To: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com> Subject: Re: [MBZ] global warming Message-ID: <m1vcptm73u....@cs.indiana.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Mike Esh <michael...@me.com> writes: > And let's not forget about the waste vegetable oil users. A small > percentage of the whole and if done correctly, a safe and effective > way reduce carbon emissions. Any bio-fuel (biodiesel or ethanol) is pretty much carbon-neutral unless it take more energy to produce than it yields. I have nothing against bio-fuels per se, but think it's not a good idea to use food crops (or land that would otherwise be growing food crops) for fuel as it just makes food that much more expensive. Allan -- 1983 300D 1979 300SD _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
