{"id":682,"date":"2008-07-15T23:19:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-15T22:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.widmann.org.uk\/?p=682"},"modified":"2008-07-15T23:19:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-15T22:19:00","slug":"biofuels-are-not-the-answer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/biofuels-are-not-the-answer\/","title":{"rendered":"Biofuels are not the answer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/neufcent9\/2173104087\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2094\/2173104087_22b085d728_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: solid 2px #000000;\" \/><\/a> <br \/> <span style=\"font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;\">  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/neufcent9\/2173104087\/\">bioethanol<\/a>  <br \/>  Originally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/neufcent9\/\">neufcent9<\/a> <\/span><\/div>\n<p>There&#8217;s an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/commentisfree\/2008\/jul\/14\/food.energyefficiency\">interesting comment in The Guardian<\/a>, arguing that the world needs to produce more food and not waste it on biofuels.<\/p>\n<p>There is an interesting bit of information in it:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The grain required to fill a [95 litre] tank with ethanol would feed one person for an entire year.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It so clearly demonstrates why biofuels aren&#8217;t the answer, as it means driving a car means many people can&#8217;t eat &ndash; it&#8217;s not as if your car could run the whole time on the left-overs from dinner.<br clear=\"all\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>bioethanol Originally uploaded by neufcent9 There&#8217;s an interesting comment in The Guardian, arguing that the world needs to produce more food and not waste it on biofuels. There is an interesting bit of information in it: The grain required to fill a [95 litre] tank with ethanol would feed one person for an entire year. It so clearly demonstrates why biofuels aren&#8217;t the answer, as it means driving a car means many people can&#8217;t eat &ndash; it&#8217;s not as if your car could run the whole time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[159,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-en","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}