Bio Fuels Mandated in Canada
posted by Mike Shenher @ 4:26 PM
Wednesday, December 20, 2006
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9 Comments:
Dedicating farmland for growing fuel is stupid beyond measure, creating new areas to farm for fuel even dumber.
Politics of the heart, bloody stupid.
But I bet the egghead environuts will eat it up, they never can see the problems their answers will create.
falls 5 points below liberal objectives.
Are the Liberal objectives attainable?
Is there enough grain land available to produce the Liberal objectives?
Can the Liberal objectives be met without putting marginal conservation/pasture land into grain production?
Maybe "grain" isn't the way to go. I'm concerned about soil depletion if we go too far, but maybe there's a crop [hemp maybe?] that will grow like a weed, and be perfect for bio-fuel fermenting.
I was pretty surprised to see only one story on this subject on the Blogging Tory homepage, but maybe I didn't look early enough. Still some people should be writing about this tonight.
This is yet another Republican policy move. Biofuels make sense only if they are derived from waste or from low-grade crops that require no tillage. Including food crops in the mix will distort agricultural markets. Subsidies will multiply the stupidity. The sensible alternative would be to process waste from agriculture and forestry. Whatever happened to fiscal conservatives????
Colin is right in that using food for fuel is probably not the answer. Cellulose waste from agriculture or forestry production, or marginal, high production grasses that don't take food out of the market is the way to go. That technology has been tested and proven, and should be to market by 2010. It will still take 20 years or more before any significant dent is made in the use of fossil fuels.
Bio fuels are the green product of Archer Daniels Midland and Cargil. Corporate Welfare masquarading as green economy/technology. And who sits on the ADM board, why none other than Mr. Green PM, Brian Mulroney.
Whatever happened to fiscal conservatives????
We've joined the Green Party...
Whatever happened to fiscal conservatives????
Yah but we're not staying with the current gongshow Green leadership. I can't wait for May's next discussion of abortion.
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