Biofuels worse than petroleum
A story on Slashdot linked to a Seattle Times story citing a study that claims biofuels, such as switchgrass grown for ethanol, would produce 50% more carbon emissions than the equivalent amount of gasoline.
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March 13th, 2008 at 7:05 pm
[…] The Latest Fresh News blog has a story about “A New Way To Make Ethanol”. Looks like good news compared to the er, “growing” idea that biofuels are worse than petroleum. […]