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Originally Posted by Flames in 07
The whole concept is rediculous.
energy is tight but to use food as fuel just trades one problem for another. It is some combination of selfish and ignorant.
People don't think twice about converting food to fuel just to subsidized Canadian and American unbelievably inefficient standards. Either pay the price for oil or don't use it.
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An interesting documentary on Scifi tonight pointed out the developing technologies that will help the world move away from the dependence on oil, and one of them was the amazing advances that have been made in the arenas of bio-diesel and ethanol plants. Genetically manipulated bacteria are now being used to generate more fuel than ever before, and from strictly waste products from plants like corn and canola. The fuel is collected from the leaves and stalks of the plant, not the food source itself. It is solutions like this that are the future. Turning our waste products into energy is the wave of the future and could make many of our problems today disappear. But then again, that's likely just me being a combination of selfish and ignorant.
