One tank of ethanol contains enough grain to ‘feed one African for a year’
Bjorn Lomborg has added his name to the list of those who have attacked the world’s infatuation with crop-based ethanol. Mind you, Lomborg isn’t a ’skeptic’ in the sense that he believes CO2 is affecting the climate. However, he does believe that things have been drastically overstated. Take a look what he says here about some of the major problems with ethanol:
Bio-fuels essentially take food from mouths and puts it into cars. The grain required to fill the tank of an SUV with ethanol is enough to feed one African for a year. Thirty percent of this year’s corn production in the United States will be burned up on America’s highways. This has been possible only through subsidies that globally will total $15 billion this year alone.
Because increased demand for bio-fuels leads to cutting down carbon-rich forests, a 2008 Science study showed that the net effect of using them is not to cut CO2 emissions, but to double them. The rush towards bio-fuels has also strongly contributed to rising food prices, which have tipped another roughly 30 million people into starvation.
Because of climate panic, our attempts to mitigate climate change have provoked an unmitigated disaster. We will waste hundreds of billions of dollars, worsen global warming, and dramatically increase starvation.
Once again people, ethanol from crops (or anything that takes up agricultural land) is a bad idea that has led to millions suffering from starvation. Take a look at some more of the downside in some of my previous articles posted here, here, and here.
