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...industry was both chilling and truthful, it's damaging to demonize the global effort to develop clean fuels as "myth," "scam" and "hype" [April 7]. It is no myth that thousands of scientific teams are working feverishly to create biofuels such as ethanol, biodiesel and biobutanol from nonfood plants grown on land unsuitable for food production. We could not have landed on the moon without first launching at Kitty Hawk. We are getting better at this every day. Mark Beyer, Detroit...
...Flags rose over the highway, ghostly in the distance, Kimble said from the passenger’s seat, “Then Katrina, the ride of our lives came.” Homes were still boarded up; water damage gaped through the walls; and the grass, unattended, had grown high. X’s and O’s were sprayed on the boards—signifying not hugs and kisses, but often how many people had died in that home during the storm. The lower Ninth Ward was a ghost town—no inhabitants, no volunteers, no government...
...Hispanics like Murillo now constitute 7.9 percent of the student body at Harvard. Although this statistic has grown in recent years, it still feels nothing like her home in Ventura County, Calif., where two-thirds of the population is of Hispanic descent...
...easy to see why corn-derived ethanol became this sort of easy-fix solution, and why it has limited potential as a practical global replacement for gasoline going forward. Ethanol is an ace in the political deck of cards; it is backed by a powerful agricultural lobby and grown heavily in the (usually) politically indispensable state of Iowa. Moreover, the infrastructure for distilling and mixing corn-based ethanol into our fuel had been in place since it replaced methyl tert-butyl ether (MTBE) as the fuel additive of choice early this decade...
...wheat, corn and soybeans have soared in the last ten months as rising oil prices drove up food production costs: from the fuel to power farm machinery, to the hydrocarbon-based fertilizers, to the gasoline needed to transport food to stores. At the same time, demand for grains has grown as developed countries produce more biofuels from food-crop feedstocks, and as people in China and India take advantage of their rapid income growth and start eating more meat (which requires more grain to feed more animals). Add to that a few short-term weather shocks, like drought in Australia...