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Question: Is BioFuel a part of the Future?

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Answer #1:

No, it costs a fortune in energy to create for the energy received from the fuel.

So, its the worst approach.

If I could simply pinch a turd or drop my food waste in my car's "fuel" tank, that would be one thing, but processing all this crap to make fuel.

Not in anyone's life time will this be cost effective.

Answer #2:

BioFuels are murder. Plants are people too. A liberal told me so.

Answer #3:

Ethanol costs more than a barrel of oil to make a barrel of. Unless some wizard comes up with an effificent way, it won't happen.

Answer #4:

I'm hoping that the future will see advances in electric car technologies, particularly better batteries. Because there are many ways to generate electricity, electric cars would allow the most options. In some cases bio-fuels could be one of those options, but hydroelectric, wind power, solar power, nuclear, clean burning fossil fuels and other means of generating electricity would all be usable.

Answer #5:

I think its a bad idea.

Firstly agricultural land is a very limited resource. Humanity needs that first and foremost to feed people. As soon as you start turning it into a fuel supply, then actual food production decreases, prices rise across the globe and the most needy can no longer afford to stave off hunger.
Even now, the rising world food shortage has resulted in riots in dozens of country as people can no longer afford the bread they need to feed themselves.

Seconly, biofuels are terribly inefficient. So much petroleum is used in the farming process for tractors and harvesters and delivery trucks, for fertilisers, for processing, that the end result provides little more in fuel value than the total amount of petroleum used during the making of it.

It would be better to find fuel sources that use the world's barren landscapes instead. Wind farms and solar panels can be placed in the middle of a desert or out at sea in shallow waters. There is no loss of valuable land as a result.

The only advantage of ethanol is that it can be pumped like oil into a car. But causing world hunger to feed the Western appetite for the automobile seems like quite an immoral trade-off.

Answer #6:

Bio fuels suck too much out of the agriculture sector and drive up the price of food. It might be ok as a stop gap but in the in hydrogen fuel cell cars will be the death of my beloved small block chevy.

Answer #7:

Who is we?

Should people invest more in biofuels, certainly. Should the government, no.

Answer #8:

Absolutely.





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