01-25-2008
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Re: What plants might be grown, just for bio-fuel?
The beginnings of a biofuel backlash?
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Europe, Cutting Biofuel Subsidies, Redirects Aid to Stress Greenest Options
By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL
Published: January 22, 2008[/I]
Governments in Europe and elsewhere have begun rolling back generous, across-the-board subsidies for biofuels, acknowledging that the environmental benefits of these fuels have often been overstated.
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A biofuel plant under construction in England in 2005. Countries in Europe are revising incentives for biofuel production.
But as they aim to be more selective, these governments are discovering how difficult it can be to figure out whether a particular fuel — much less a particular batch of corn ethanol or rapeseed biodiesel — has been produced in an environmentally friendly manner. Biofuels vary greatly in their environmental impact.
“A lot of countries are interested in doing this, but it’s really hard to do right,” said Ronald Steenblik, research director of the Global Subsidies Initiative in Geneva. “You can’t look at a bottle of ethanol and tell how it’s produced, whether it’s sustainable. You have to know: Was the crop produced on farmland or on recently cleared forest? Did the manufacturer use energy from coal or nuclear?”
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/22/bu...ml?ref=science
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