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Food for Thought: How Green Are Biofuels?

FYI: Here is another interesting study (greencarcongress) in the case against ethanol:

Karsten Hedegaard, Kathrine A. Thyø, and Henrik Wenzel (2008) Life Cycle Assessment of an Advanced Bioethanol Technology in the Perspective of Constrained Biomass Availability. ASAP Environ. Sci. Technol., doi: 10.1021/es800358d

Food for Thought: How Green Are Biofuels?

Great article. When faced with the choice between plug in electric vehicles and biofuels for ICE vehicles, I would thintk the oil industry would be proponents of the latter. Does anyone know what percentage of BP profits come from drilling and refining vs. retail sales? Do they profit from selling E85?

Do We Need an Alternative Energy 'Manhattan Project'?

America could easily be energy independent in ten years by aggressively prosecuting oil companies that are squashing existing technology. They say we can't drive electric cars because the technology is too expensive, because the battery doesn't exist, because blah blah blah blah. I can build a goddam electric car in my back yard for under $8000, but I can't buy the Cobasys NIMH battery that powered the EV1 in California because Chevron bought it and won't sell itt to anyone. They won't even fulfill their contract with Daimler who is currently sueing them. But they don't care about lawsuits, they make more money each day that the battery is not available than they'll ever lose in a lawsuit.