Comments on: Bio-Fuel Scam Resurfaces As British Airways Use Food For Jet Fuel

By: E Brian

E Brian — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 16:16:18 +0000

An old post but maybe someone will stumble upon it as I did! The point surely is that this uses waste food and waste biomass that otherwise goes to landfill. Whether you believe in climate change or not, the pollution caused by fossil oil drilling, tanker leakage etc is indisputable and has been catastrophic for wildlife. The toxic chemicals and carcinogens in leaked crude oil ends up in marine life and our food chain. Food prices rise because fossil fuels are required to manufacture chemical fertilizers (that leach into water courses), for food transport, tractors etc. Biofuels utlise energy from the sun via photosynthesis and are not inherently bad but, as with the wood industry, the key is to manage them sustainably and in an environmentally friendly way. This is already starting to happen. We have large areas of uncultivated agricultural land e.g in Ukraine but usually far removed from where the starving people are. We have had surplus food reserves at the same time as starving people for years and what is lacking is the political will to help the starving in countries that don’t have oil reserves. we need to break the oil industries strangle hold over fuel and indirectly, food prices.

By: Mohammad Murphy

Mohammad Murphy — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 09:33:14 +0000

actually, Fidel Castro is not at all a bad man. Cuba has one of the best government medical care in the world *`,

By: Sofia Singh

Sofia Singh — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 09:17:12 +0000

Fidel Castro still have some good legacies despite his not so good repuation.:~’

By: Michael Miller

Michael Miller — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 05:28:16 +0000

there are so many scams running on the internete so watch out`-’

By: Jessica Bailey

Jessica Bailey — Fri, 21 May 2010 04:04:38 +0000

Fidel Castro would always be an icon of history evethough he is against the U.S.~-:

By: Nigel Rolland

Nigel Rolland — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 15:36:27 +0000

You are quite right that bio fuels are not an ethical solution to the problems posed by Peak Oil,

The Cuban leader Fidel Castro was one of the first international figure criticising the biofuels policy.

In 2007, Castro said that the US drive to back crop use for fuels would raise food prices and cause more hunger in developing countries.

If you would like to learn more about the campaign against the Global development of Biofuels visit Biofuelwatch tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/biofuelwatch/

By: Keelan Balderson

Keelan Balderson — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 17:33:02 +0000

Please explain that to the dead children of Africa. I’m sure they’ll love your ambiguous businessman rhetoric.

By: Clive Richardson

Clive Richardson — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 16:47:06 +0000

Bio Jet Fuel demand could lead to excellent promotion of agriculture in developing regions of the world for both food and fuel. The Solena process for producing advanced liquid fuels from biomass can have a great health and hygine impact while reducing the amount of mineral carbon used within the aviation industry.

Weather we like it or not there is going to have to be engineered bio solutions for energy needs in the developed and least developed regions of the world this has nothing to do with Climate Change; most to do with economic change. The mineral resources we depend upon to drive our economic wellbeing are depleted rapidly, alternatives are not so much a choice but a necessity for all.