Well, yes and no. Tom Stevenson is absolutely correct that the biofuel industry is a disastrous con, that it doesn’t reduce CO2 emissions, it pushes up food prices, increases the pressures on currently unfarmed land and so on. It’s an excellent example of the truth that if you think governments are going to solve climate change then you’re obviously not paying attention. However:
Now, gratifyingly, the OECD has come out and said what many suspected
all along. The biofuels revolution is actually a con. Filling up with
recycled chip fat is damaging to the environment,
He’s there actually pointed to the one time when biofuels are indeed an extremely good idea. Recycled chip fat….we can throw it away, feed it to the pigs or drive cars on it. That last is probably the highest value use. Making new chip fat to run cars on might be a silly thing to do but using what we’ve already got sounds great. Straining for a phrase he actually makes the opposite case he means to.
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