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Not only, but apparently includes bio-fuels. Sorry, but agriculture is hugely environmentally impactful. We should not be growing fuel. I think a lot of it is s
by jackfoxy 8y ago
Not only, but apparently includes bio-fuels. Sorry, but agriculture is hugely environmentally impactful. We should not be growing fuel. I think a lot of it is subsidized by governments. Extracting petroleum from the ground is going to continue to be cheap for a very long time.
- StavrosK 8y agoAren't biofuels carbon neutral? You have to capture the carbon from the atmosphere to make the fuel.
- jackfoxy 8y agoPerhaps that is the argument, but corn or sugar cane or whatever don't magically become diesel. There's energy and other external costs put into the system, pollution by fertilizers, etc. Then again, growing trees on the same agricultural land would sequester how much carbon? And trees would be processed to building materials (among other uses) not released back into the atmosphere so quickly.