Newsday calls biofuels supporters “Biofools” in Science magazine article aftermath
Reaction to last week’s shocking Science magazine articles continued, with a negative editorial in Newsday that called biofuels supporters “Biofools“. The editorial stated that “ethanol and other biofuels actually hurt the environment. When the full emission costs of producing these “greener” fuels are considered, they create more greenhouse gases than fossil fuels.”
The complete supporting online material from the Searchinger study, including well-to-wheel emission tables can be downloaded (free) here.
Reaction from world press is linked below, most of it strong reading, usually condemning biofuels:
The Register
San Francisco Chronicle
World Changing
Wall Street Journal
Science
The Morning Call
TIME
National Post (Canada)
CTV
The Car Connection
The Nature Conservancy
New York Times
Los Angeles Times
Washington Post
25×25 response
More on the Science magazine controversy from Biofuels Digest:
Argonne National Lab says Science article authors’ models did not factor in changing crop yields
Bad, bad biofuels”, more Science magazine reaction, and downloads to complete underlying data
A group of scientists write to US President George Bush and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi urging them to revise US biofuels policiesBiofuels emissions authors say biofuels OK if made from waste, perennials, or abandoned land
93 percent increase in greenhouse gases? Renewable Fuel Association says fossil fuels created the “carbon debt we can never repay”
Nature Conservancy study says converting land for biofuels increases net carbon usage
This is a ridiculous article. If there are biofools, then might I suggest that the author of this article is one.
Look, there is plenty of oil money associated with this so called study.
Also the figures used to come to these conclusions are from old data. There is no fact here at all.
If they want to compare ethanol and other biofuels, then lets take a close looks at what the oil industry is doing in Alberta.
When you really look at the facts, not some fictuous study, then you see that ethanol and other biofuels comes out squeaky clean.