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	Biofuels a scam?

n2sooners

6-11-2007 2:09 AM

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6-13-2007 10:49 AM

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Bio-fuels are NOT an answer, but simply an alternative. The world has to be weened off of oil, and the sooner the better. Once the grip of the stranglehold grip of the oil industry is broken, things can move forward. Other technologies exist and are being rapidly developed , only to meet huge resistance from the oil industry.

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THE government’s policy of promoting biofuels for transport will come under
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Roland Clift will tell a seminar of the Royal Academy of Engineering that the
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Clift, professor of environmental technology at Surrey University, sits on the
 scientific advisory council of Defra, David Miliband’s environment
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