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The Trouble With Biofuel & The Case Against Biofuels

The Trouble With Biofuel & The Case Against Biofuels

Full Title:  The Trouble With Biofuel
Author(s): E. Wiltek
Publisher(s): Chem 111
Publication Date: March 1, 2010
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Description (excerpt):

Biofuels are problematic not only because the process may use sources of food in a time when people go hungry, and may actually take more net energy to produce than traditional fuels (two common criticisms), but because, fatally, a handful of multinational corporations (in particular the biotech agriculture industry) have a monopoly over the market. The oligopoly controls the two main sources of the sugars necessary for the seemingly most viable biofuel, bioethanol: corn and sugarcane. Biotech agribusiness can patent plant genetic material– i.e. seeds– enabling a few huge companies to control all corn and sugarcane production, which has resulted in genetically modified monocultures that require pesticides and fossil fuel based fertilizers, conveniently made by the same handful of corporations.

Full Title: The Case Against Biofuels
Author(s): C. Runge
Publisher(s): Yale Environment 360
Publication Date: 3/2010
Identifier(s): http://www.reuters.com/article/idUS312668676120100311
Language: English
Length:  4-7 of 7 pages, 2-article PDF

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