Jane Smith . News Anchor, Director, Documentarian

Bio-fuels: Are They Worth Producing?

by Jane Smith

Due to mounting scientific evidence which concludes that the production of bio-fuels creates a dramatic negative net effect of increased, rather than diminished, carbon-dioxide levels, labeled "carbon debt", we can, all, breathe a sigh of relief that the Brazilian Government is, finally, taking steps to end the burning of the Amazon rainforests for conversion to farmland. Moreover, the POTENTIAL supply of bio-fuels has been found to be INSUFFICIENT to serve even America, at current consumption levels.

Some classic conversions release hundreds of times more carbon than the annual savings of replacing fossil fuels, and the production of corn-based ethanol will nearly double the output of carbon dioxide and other lethal gases - all of which function to deplete the ozone layer, entrap the heat of the sun, and, in turn, allow increasing amounts of water vapor to escape earth's atmosphere and flow into outer space, never to be reclaimed as fresh rain. This is the most dangerous and most extreme tragedy, of all, with regard to global warming and excessive CO2 production.

With diminished levels of fresh water in our Great Lakes and other major waterways, What will your great-great-grandchildren drink. You are, already, drinking recycled, reprocessed sewage water (even within your soda). No fresh water on earth remains completely pure other than the, yet, frozen glaciers of the arctic regions, which are, currently, melting into salt water at the rate of the flow over Niagara Falls. A mere sixty years ago, however, the world's forests were prevalent, lush, and protected, it's fresh waters pure. It is not too late for us to "turn around". We dare not hesitate to do so.

Brazil was, long, the home of one of the last great wildernesses upon the planet Earth, cradling the vast majority of our exotic birds, mammals, et caetera, and providing the majority of fresh oxygen for the world's population.

Consider, too, that food prices are, now, spiking due to the emergence of a bio-fuel "industry". Within the past year, corn futures rose from $2.80 to $4.38 per bushel, the sharpest increase within the past decade. Today's poor, around the Earth, cannot afford sufficient food at the former prices; naturally, they will not be able to afford sufficient food at higher costs.

Thus, it has, finally, been proven that bio-fuels were never worthy of our time, effort, and government-funded publicity campaign.

Granted, industry experts could have mathematically proven (=) the same, without subjecting us to the horrors which we, as a global community, have experienced and witnessed. Nevertheless, as a civilized society, we need to explore alternative options, such as slender and attractive solar energy grids embracing the edges of skyscrapers, instead. Explore the possibilities of long-lasting battery, laser, and fusion technologies as fuel sources, et alii. All lobbyists must, heretofore, be required to communicate, solely, with the Commerce Department, in Washington (rather than overseas), given that our Representatives, Senators, President, and Vice President have far more important tasks to complete than to secure the bottom-lines of national and international businesses and foreign nations.

Meanwhile, trillions of innocent babies of myriad forms, such as toucans, cockatiels, bunny rabbits, and panthers, each of whom is as conscious and sentient as you and I, are being burned alive, day by day, throughout Brazil, and elsewhere, merely, to "feed" the global fuel and paper industries, which have already stripped the remainder of the world's resources in most other nations. Brazil is, currently, vulnerable to the greed of "the machine". Beware China, for, at the going rate of accomplishment of Hitler's New Order dream of maximal resource utilization, you are next.

Sources: 

WSJ

Reuters

Science Magazine

JPL, NASA:  Interhemispheric Differences in Polar Stratospheric HNO3, H20, C10, and O3 - M.L. Santee, W. G. Read, J. W. Waters, L. Froidevaux, G. L. Manney, D. A. Flower, R. F. Jarnot, R. S. Harwood, G. E. Peckham

The Council on Hemispheric Affairs