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Biodiesel flickers out leaving investors burned « Aletho News

Established biodiesel production which uses soy beans produced through industrial agriculture is simply not economically viable. Leaving aside the moral implications of dedicating arable land to fuel production, which results in higher market prices for basic foods, the higher production cost of biodiesel reflects a likely net energy loss once the entire process is accounted for.

The economic hope for soy-biodiesel had been predicated on promised cost advantages in GMO crops which turned out to be largely hyperbole and wishful thinking. With oil and gas prices stable, and with new non-conventional production methods that are vastly increasing economically recoverable oil reserves, it is unlikely that biodiesel of any type could be competitive any time in the foreseeable future.

Biodiesel flickers out leaving investors burned « Aletho News.

January 5th, 2010 | Category: Uncategorized | 4 comments |

4 comments to Biodiesel flickers out leaving investors burned « Aletho News

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    Joe
    January 6th, 2010 at 12:23 pm

    Dear “Editor”– so, what’s your point? In copying/posting this text from the Aletho article, do you meant to say “me too”? and that you wholly agree? .. or something Else?

    On the surface, it looks like you’ve just copied some of the most negative (and, by the way, INCORRECT) sentences in that Aletho article and slapped them onto your site for– what?– a cheap headline?

    I’d really like to understand, again, What’s your Point?

    Thx — JK

  2. 2
    Editor
    January 6th, 2010 at 1:02 pm

    Joe,

    You should have noticed, if you were attentive, that I aggregate news articles. Many sites do this. I seldom post the whole article, just a bit to give the gist of the article. Then anyone interested in the topic can follow the link at the end to the whole article. So, my point is, this was an article presenting a viewpoint I thought worthy of consideration. I am no fan of bio-diesel, for various reasons, but in general, I let others more articulate than I do the talking.

    If you have substantive disagreement, write your own article. If it is well crafted, and I conclude that you are not an industry shill, I will post it or link to it if posted elsewhere.

    By the way, you might consider commenting in a less aggressive and inflammatory tone - it detracts from your credibility.

    Regards
    Editor

  3. 3
    Joe
    January 6th, 2010 at 1:50 pm

    Thanks Editor– So you just cull the Web and link to whatever headline stikes your fancy– without ANY critical reading of the content?..

    How, then, do you discern whether a piece meets your standard for providing “progressive and humanistic viewpoints” ? The article in question (by “Aletho”) offers neither, don’t you agree?

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    Editor
    January 6th, 2010 at 4:46 pm

    Nice little touch of ad hominem attack there Joe.

    My views on bio-diesel and bio-ethanol were formed long before I read Aletho’s piece. In fact, a two years ago, I used a bio-fuel/oil blend for my home heating a couple of years ago. Then I started to look into the whole life cycle costs and externalities of bio-fuels, and decided that they were a bad idea, on the balance of probabilities.

    So, you have not convinced me that you actually have truth on your side. In fact, reading your posts, both here and at Aletho’s site, I conclude that not only are you a pretty offensive person, but your views on bio-fuels are not likely to be correct. Aletho has implied that you have a vested interest. Is he correct, are you in fact not a disinterested party?

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