[Sustainable-biodiesel] Growing Sustainable Biofuels: Common Sense on Biofuels

[Rachel Burton]

http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/007868.html

Biofuels received a fresh surge of bad publicity with recent  
publication of two studies in Science that looked at the greenhouse  
gas releases caused by land use changes connected to biofuels  
production.

The studies make complex and nuanced statements that were predictably  
mangled by the press, with headlines easily interpreted as a general  
condemnation of biofuels. Typical was the New York Times, “Biofuels  
Deemed a Greenhouse Threat,” The studies were creating new  
uncertainties even among biofuels supporters and tipping others  
toward a skeptical position.  At very least the studies add to  
substantial public perception problems facing biofuels.


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