[PCA] NEWS: New Trend in Biofuels Has New Risks
Olivia Kwong
plant at plantconservation.org
Fri May 30 10:08:37 CDT 2008
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/21/science/earth/21biofuels.html
New Trend in Biofuels Has New Risks
By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL
Published: May 21, 2008
ROME - In the past year, as the diversion of food crops like corn and palm
to make biofuels has helped to drive up food prices, investors and
politicians have begun promoting newer, so-called second-generation
biofuels as the next wave of green energy. These, made from non-food crops
like reeds and wild grasses, would offer fuel without the risk of taking
food off the table, they said.
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