Reply #16: I disagree... [View All]

[JBear]

Many bio-fuel manufacturers are using the waste stream of oils to produce. Locally we are seeing waste veg oil, rendered chicken grease and other oils going into the bio-diesel stream. This is not removing any food product from the plate. These are all feedstocks that would either be burned off or sequestered in landfills.

One other point about bio-fuels is that carbon is not created or destroyed. It is transformed from form to form. The serious increase in carbon in our atmosphere is from pumping it up from underground. Bio-based fuels do put carbon dioxide in the air, but that is "current carbon." Current carbon is carbon taken from the air, used to create bio-mass, and then re-released into the air when it is burned or fermented or rotted down. It is important to look at the whole cycle to see how this works.

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