This is how i will like to start my New Year on steemit. Reading this post means i am definitely having a great year on steemit. If this was not the first post i read first today, i might not guarantee my success on steemit for this year:)
I have not been around, was really busy with family duties this short break.
Brilliant. From the depth of my heart, brilliant. Atimes i wonder why you are not a full writer. This is just wow. I love this piece. Why because there is so much education going on here. You have a way of talking deep into plain things and things we all think is just "normal", but after you are done exposing and breaking it down, there is more meaning to it and you finally ice the cake by showing the importance to us and this makes us think if we are actually concerned about it. I love your posts so much.
This is a huge point my friend.
I'm not so down with the whole biofuel idea. It uses energy to produce it, takes the space where food is to be grown and in the end,
Thats the point. Burning food for fuel is poor policy. The large area needed is only one of the problems with biofuels. Infact the biofuel industry has become so big that it is already politically incorrect to speak in public against biofuels.
In the end, what do we want to do, exactly, with biofuels? Do we really think that the way to solve our energy problems is to use an inefficient technology to support an already inefficient transportation system? The only explanation I can think of for so much emphasis on biofuels is that, once a bad idea is implemented, it starts to gain momentum and then it becomes nearly impossible to stop.
We shouldn't be taking agricultural land and growing biofuels on it.
Oh God, Another problem is that refining some crops, like corn, into fuel can produce more greenhouse gases than simply using gasoline in cars in the first place.
Biofuels once seemed like a quick fix, but may have just been a detour on the road to a sustainable energy policy that my government has been talking about for sometime now.
Its a shame.
Thank you @velimir for this. We really need to give some thought to this. We can learn a lot from this. Happy New Year.