Monday, April 2, 2007

Biofuel: too good to be true

Biofuel has been a hot topic in the past year, and many have been hopeful that it would be the cure-all our country needs. It could mean signifigantly lower gas prices, replenishing oil and battling climate change and global warming. Now it's looking like biofuel is indeed too good to be true, and will not be the miracle our country has hoped for. There are growing concerns that there is simply not enough land to grow these bio-fuel crops, which could seriously increase starvation in poor countries. Rainforests and ecosystems are being destroyed to grow these crops, and the burning to clear the land is seriously increasing pollution.
It goes to show that there is no clean cut solution to this problem. We have done serious damage to our environment, and we're beginning to feel the repercussions. The solutions we've found have turned out to not be solutions after all, but how will our government react, or the American people for that matter? We would all love for prices at the pump to go down, but at what expense? If biofuel isn't really helping our environment, and could potentially cause mass starvation, then it's certainly not worth it to me.

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