Stop Eating Meat or Forget Biofuels

Cattle grazing has depleted the world of rainforests and there just isn't enough land for biofuels?

A new study by the University of Leeds and the World Land Trust are worried that biofuels might actually be even more harmful to the planet than conventional fuels.

"The group is concerned that large areas of land in the developing world are being cleared to grow crops such as sugar cane and palm oil to service the energy consumption needs of our gas guzzling culture. These crops are being converted to biofuels which ostensibly produce less carbon dioxide than conventional transport fuels. What the scientists have found is that up to nine times as much carbon dioxide will be emitted by biofuels compared to conventional petrol and diesel because biofuel crops are typically grown on land which is burnt and reclaimed from tropical forests." (more)

Meat hogs, gas hogs, energy hogs - when you act like a hog it seems there is never enough.