Lula da Silva: Biofuels are good
After the chorus of voices we've heard recenlty claiming that biofuels aren't as good as we thought, someone had to defend the ethanols and the biodiesels of the world. Meet Brazilian president Luis Inazio Lula da Silva, who spoke our against what a UN worker, Jean Ziegler, when Ziegler claimed that biofuels were a crime against humanity."Don't anybody come to me to tell me that food prices are high because of biodiesel. Food prices are high because the world was not ready for a billion Chinese and a billion Indians eating more food," he added. Lula was also against certain agriculture subsidies introduced into U.S. and EU markets, which he blamed for the rise of prices as well.
[Source: Agroinformación]
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Stins 1:55PM (4/21/2008)
Biodiesel is certainly a hot button issue right now. After those two studies came out in the NYT (http://greenhome.huddler.com/forum/thread/83/biofuels-deemed-a-greenhouse-threat-nyt?replies=1) a lot of biodiesel proponents seemed to get pretty up in arms about their golden alternative fuel source. We did have one woman write a great wiki about her experiences with getting her car to run on biodiesel:
http://greenhome.huddler.com/wiki/eco-friendly-cars-for-the-cheapskate
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GreyFlcn 7:24PM (4/21/2008)
And of course, which country is largely supplying all the excess demand for soybeans? Clear cut amazon rainforrests in Brazil. Which happen's to be Lula sa Silva's country.
"It's good for business".
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Pablo 3:06PM (4/22/2008)
I think President Silva is right that the real issue with rising food prices is rising population. According to the UN - we add over 300,000 new people per day to the world. 300,000 per day. Blaming ethonal- and refusing to acknoledge the real issue - way way too many new mouths to feed - only dooms those new people to misery.
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