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Now, this gets to the root of my problem with the global warming debate. Yeah, I know, the debate is over. However, the problem still exists whether the “debate is over” or not. Anytime someone asks whether we’re doing the right thing or not, we get lambasted as being crazy. It gets tiresome. But, it keeps coming back that people like me are the ones that need to be listened to and not Al Gore. My stance has always been we don’t know enough about what we are doing to commit the planet to a very specific path. This isn’t the first article I’ve cited that says bio-fuels may not be the way to go. Brazil has destroyed rainforests in the pursuit of bio-fuels. This just isn’t working very well. The problem I see with the bio-fuel situation is mankind wants its cake and wants to eat it too. Combustion is the problem, not the fuel that supplies it. As long as we’re burning something horribly inefficiently, we’ll have waste.
If bio-fuels do more harm than good, then we need the Al Gores telling us that we may as well stick with oil for the time being. And, for purely personal and political reasons, that will never happen. Now, what WILL happen I’m sure is the global warmists will totally dismiss this research as bogus and keep hammering those that want to know why with rhetoric. Never once stopping to question themselves as to whether we truly are making the Earth a better place, or destroying it faster than we were before.
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