You know those ads on TV promoting ethanol and biodiesel as viable green alternatives? And you believe them, right? Wrong - you are too smart for that.
Here is another good post from "more notes from the underground" bringing more info on this farce to our attention.
Here is an update to my last post about Ethanol.
Murray Dobbin's latest column on rabble.ca is entitled Last Stage Of Denial: ethanol will save us!
In the article, Murray sites more evidence about how ethanol is not the answer and will not only NOT reduce pollution, but will threaten our food sources. A quote that caught my attention from Fidel Castro: More than three billion people in the world are being condemned to a premature death from hunger and thirst ... The sinister idea of turning foodstuffs into fuel was definitely established as the economic strategy of the U.S. foreign policy on Monday, March 26th last.
Biofuels, ethanol, are not the answer to clean fuels as they use up food growing land and they encourage cutting down forests (which absorb CO2, which helps to cut down on Greenhouse gases).
Here is a new article regarding this.
As I've mentioned before, ethanol, while it seems like a good idea, especially as the politicos and media paint it, has its downside.
- the pollution created to grow and process it almost defeats its purpose of being cleaner than gasoline
- and then there is the negative effect it has on food supplies, as mentioned here. Large tracts of land reserved for growing food crops, switched to grow more profitable fuel crops - thus driving up the cost of food (which is deadly for the world's poor - which is most of the world).
The technology is here to make cars that are WAY more efficient than what they are making - as evidenced by the various home car hackers out there souping up their cars to get things like 100-300 miles/gallon - 1, 2, 3, and many other sources - check out Green Car Congress too.
Bring back the electric car.
This article says it all.
- change the wording of bill just so a not so environmentally friendly car gets included in the rules for rebate-eligible environmentally friendly cars - a car built in a riding that the conservatives need to boost their support in to keep ... Flaherty Pork indeed.
