Stop Biofuels Now!
Posted 3:16 AM

US, UK and EU politicians, including Bush, Clinton, McCain and Obama, and their well-meaning activists are wrong in their promotion of biofuels. Biofuel subsidies have to stop as soon as possible. There is a global economic and environmental collapse that is being hastened by this self-serving agricultural lobby.

• The price of food is increasing as farmland becomes a higher-yield economy
  
• More of the earth is being converted to farmland, which damages ecosystems, and increases greenhouse gasses
  
• In some countries, rainforests and peat bogs are destroyed to increase biofuel farm acreage
  
• Biofuel farmers in 3rd world countries have miserable working conditions
  
• Biofuels are far, far worse than oil in CO2 emissions and environmental impact
  

Instead.... try solar:

• Solar energy can be made in "dead zones" where little natural plant and animal life thrives
  
• Solar farms do not deplete the soil, generate runoff, or ruin our natural resources
  
• Modern solar systems can last 20 years, requiring no maintenance, and little energy investment besides the original production, which they make up for in 5 years
  
• Solar industry employees are paid well and earn good living.
  
• Solar energy needs only 150-300 billion in worldwide installations for economies of scale to make it competitive with oil.
  
• A 9000 acre solar farm can produce enough energy to supply all of the energy used by the entire U.S.
  

How can we justify continued advocacy for biofuels versus alternative energies like solar - which isn't damaging our planet?

More references on the damage caused by biofuels: Wikipedia , IHT

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Canadaian Conservatives help Clinton
Posted 6:32 AM

The sly contact made by conservative Canadian ministers with Barak Obama, and then the "accidental" leak of a memo to the associated press 2 days before the Ohio primary was far from an accident.

So now conservatives in Canada, pleased with "politics as usual", have chosen meddle in America's elections. And it worked. Clinton leaped on the bone offered by the Canadians and has been doing her best to smear Obama in Ohio.

The worst part is, though, that Obama's economic adviser fell for it.

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