Truth! Does it matter at all that this has been front and center for years as a waste of money, with huge subsides and production that is just a fraction needed to supply demand? Does it matter there isn't a transportation system for electricity to meet demand for the solar panels now in use, or that millions around the world are put at risk for not having enough gain because we are using 40% of corn production to fuel our cars?
This is insane! The waste is enormous, in the Billions of dollars. And for what, taxpayers dollars to support an agenda, a philosophy of the few knowing what's best for the many. That's Socialism.
But not to worry, the progressive money bundlers that are skimming the taxpayer dollars in the millions and the funneling it back to the democrat party is just no big deal, it just politics as usual for democrats.
Apparently the voters thought so to as they voted twice to have more of the same.
Why Biofuels are a Bad Idea
In 2012, 40 percent of the U.S. corn crop was put towards ethanol production rather than food.
Source: Robert Bryce, "Biofuels Are a Bad Idea," Bloomberg, May 8, 2014.
May 12, 2014
Burning food for fuel is poor policy, argues Robert Bryce, senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute.
Vast amounts of land are required to produce biofuels, because biofuels have a very low power density, just 0.3 watts per square meter.
Globally, biofuel production doubled from 2006 to 2011, up to 1.64 million barrels per day. But because ethanol contains less energy than oil, the actual energy produced by biofuels was the equivalent of 1.2 million barrels of oil per day. Global energy use from all sources, however, is equivalent to 250 million barrels of oil per day.
That means, Bryce explains, that the world used 247 million acres of land to produce less than one-half of one percent of the world's energy.
Vast amounts of land are required to produce biofuels, because biofuels have a very low power density, just 0.3 watts per square meter.
- For comparison, solar panels have a density of 6 watts per square meter, and an oil well producing 10 barrels of oil each day has a power density of 27 watts per square meter.
- If the U.S. wanted to replace all of its transportation oil with corn-based ethanol, it would need to plant 700 million acres worth of corn alone, covering 37 percent of the continental United States.
- Soy biodiesel is even worse, requiring 3.2 billion acres of land -- one billion acres more than the size of the entire United States.
Globally, biofuel production doubled from 2006 to 2011, up to 1.64 million barrels per day. But because ethanol contains less energy than oil, the actual energy produced by biofuels was the equivalent of 1.2 million barrels of oil per day. Global energy use from all sources, however, is equivalent to 250 million barrels of oil per day.
That means, Bryce explains, that the world used 247 million acres of land to produce less than one-half of one percent of the world's energy.
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