If you haven’t seen it yet, please read The Clean Energy Scam, by Michael Grunwald in this week’s Time magazine (http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1725975,00.html) (March 27, 2008). He lays it out for us to see how increasing ethanol use is causing the destruction it was designed to prevent. And how we are paying for it through tax subsidies ($8 billion in 2007). Biofuels, inappropriately pursued, displace food crops; raise the costs of staples like wheat, eggs, and milk; create financial stress and increased hunger among the very poor (there are wheat and rice shortages around the world including Pakistan and Mexico, with strikes as tensions grow, and violence breaking out in food lines in Egypt, for example); and encourage the devastation of thousands of miles of forests as land is cleared to grow more and more crops not to feed the hungry… read more
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