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      Biofuel backlash: High prices, pollution worries hit consumers

      Posted by Jeff from Seattle Times

      But in the last year, the promise of renewable fuels has lost a lot of its luster. Prices of biodiesel have almost doubled to about $6 per gallon, and many experts blame biofuel production for driving up food prices worldwide. Prominent scientists have questioned whether growing crops for biofuels produces more greenhouse gases than it prevents

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    • What About Our Infrastructure?

      Posted by Villagenyc

      Some might say the President needs to examine his own priorities and perhaps study the nation’s infrastructure a little harder, that is if one takes a 2005 Report Card from the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) seriously. That report found dangerous flaws not only in bridges, but in some of our most basic modern life lines. Those life lines are the backbone of our nation’s economy, the very nuts and bolts

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    • Natural gas and the Enron loophole

      Posted by SoxFirst

      Should the natural gas market be subjected to stricter rules. The implosion of the hedge fund Amaranth has drawn attention to a little-known loophole created by Enron when it successfully lobbied the US government to deregulate trading by energy exchanges. And the problem will get worse with carbon shaping up as the world's biggest commodity market.

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    Jeff comments on:

    Biofuel backlash: High prices, pollution worries hit consumers

    Actually, people are complaining about rain forest being destroyed… just look at the grist mill blog today see grist.org

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    11:07 pm 6/09/08
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    Biofuel backlash: High prices, pollution worries hit consumers

    If you turn every cob of corn on the planet into fuel, you will have less than 1 quarter of the fuel needs of the US. And we aren’t the only ones driving cars. Brazil is using biofuels, and suddenly no one is complaining about the rain forest being destroyed.

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    7:51 pm 6/09/08
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    Jeff

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    Jeff is the founder of NewsCloud. He is also a freelance writer and blogs at Idealog.

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