Comments by "Kevin Street" (@Kevin_Street) on "The Problem with Biofuels" video.

Thanks for another great video! This subject really makes me mad, because I remember participating in debates on Internet message boards where we went over all the same points about biofuels, seventeen years ago. We knew all of this two decades back and it made no difference, they still built the ethanol industry into the giant it is today. The only thing that's changed is (as you said in your video) that the price of animal feed and many foodstocks has increased dramatically because of competition from ethanol. We're literally paying more for nothing. And it isn't limited to the United States, my country of Canada has the same enthusiasm for biofuels. We mostly use wheat for ethanol, but it's just as energy intensive and wasteful. This is actually a political solution masquerading as an environmental one. The real problem they're solving is "how do I get farmers to vote for me," and the solution is to find new markets for the crops the farmers were already growing so they can make more money.
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@TS-jm7jm Just about everything you said there is factually wrong, except the bit about nuclear power and "...plastic however and toxic chemical dumps really are a legitimate problem..."
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