Canadian biofuel cuts emissions sharply -report

Canadian ethanol emits 62 percent less greenhouse gas than conventional fuel, taking into consideration all stages of the fuel’s production from planting a crop to burning the fuel, a new report prepared for Canada’s biofuel industry said on Friday.

The results rebut a key argument against producing biofuels, that they use more energy than they can generate, said Gordon Quaiattini, president of the Canadian Renewable Fuels Association.
“We can clearly demonstrate that we are producing a fuel that reduces greenhouse gases,” he said. “The notion (of) a negative environmental result is just garbage.”

Among several reports that have been skeptical about biofuel, a 2005 study by Cornell University and University of California-Berkeley found that producing biofuel from corn and other crops uses much more energy than the end product generates.

Reuters