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Biofuel does not actually help with reducing CO2 output much at all. By the time the fertiliser and transport costs are in the net result is at best marginal.
The hype about CO2 is allowing the farming lobby to get the world to make food more expensive.
This is extremely harmful for the world's poor. Loads are dying and being held back in utter poverty unnecessarily. It is a crme.
Understanding the science will allow us to make better decisions. The science says that there is nothing significant to worry about from a slightly warmer world.
This is true more than many even realize. I grew up on a farm. There are certain crops that are not considered edible by humans. For instance, people eat sweet corn, not field corn. Field corn produces much more of a yield, though, and then the field corn is fed to cattle. So not only does corn-based biofuel raise the prices of corn, it raises the prices of beef as well. And then if beef is going up in price, competitive options can go up without losing demand. And that's just one example. Chickens, pigs...they all eat corn. Biofuel should be strongly opposed.