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Bio-Fuels: Penny Wise and Pound Fuelish
09/Sep/2006: Nations across the world are jumping on the bio-fuel bandwagon. Gasoline prices are rising and if ethanol or palm oil is added to gasoline, it brings down the gas prices while making no impact to your car driving and engine maintenance.
Just when it seemed that bio-fuels are the real McCoy, comes the news that these fuels may actually end up harming the earth more that helping it.
How? You ask. Here’s how: Bio-fuels such as ethanol and palm oil are made from sugarcane, maize and palm trees. The point is you need more crops to make these fuels and to make more crops you need more land and there’s this concern that corporates may start hacking rainforests to plant these cash crops. With less rainforest areas we will have less rain and more climate changes.
Major corporates across many countries have already invested in their bio-fuel programs and they are not going to stop it. So a new fight to preserve the environment has to start. And the outcome is certain: The moneybags will win it and the people who care about the environment along with their mother earth can go to hell.
Sunil Tinani
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