Page added on August 18, 2008
Several charges have recently been leveled at the biofuels industry. Misinformed critics have cited indirect land use issues, the food-versus-fuel debate, and the destruction of the Amazon rainforest as reasons to halt or eliminate the production of fuel ethanol. It
Many promised future technologies may not materialize, or else may cause unexpected harm. Plug-in hybrids would save a large amount of crude oil but only by dramatically increasing the use of coal to make electricity. Any oil saved in one country is likely to be used elsewhere, so the world would end up burning the same amount of oil and a huge additional amount of coal
Leave a Reply