Everyone talks about how the oil companies are resisting the whole biofuel thing.
My question is, why don't the oil companies just start *producing* biofuel? It's not that hard, pretty much it's run similar to a distillery (I think, from what I've heard. I know many use old stills and what-not).
(Hahaha, even better if, like, Bacardi did it. Bacardi Fuels. Hahaha. After all, they've got their finger in almost every liquor pie there is, why not fuel?)
Anyway. It's not that hard. Many have set up ethanol fuel things at their homes.
Of course, if the oil companies went into it, they would probably copyright the bajeejus out of it and charge exorbinant prices. Oh well.
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The main problem with biofuels is that they really can't ultimately solve the whole oil problem. Even if we used 100% of usable land for growing nothing but biofuels, we'd still not have enough to substitute for oil. And we'd starve to death because we'd have no farmland used for food. As it is, all this corn for ethanol is pushing up food prices for everyone - not just corn, but the animals that feed on it, are going up in price. And then the land that is used to grow corn instead of other food also reduces the supply of that other food and pushes up ITS price.
Not that it isn't good to use biofuel to at least reduce oil usage a bit, but it kind of is an ultimate dead end. Pure electric would be better, assuming we had an oil substitute for power generation in the plants - like nuclear.
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