Re: Biofuels provide less energy than their production requires.
I say biofuels are viable when they close the loop. When the production of bio-fuels requires zero petroleum inputs and minimal electrical inputs then it's truly a source of energy. Until then it's another way of converting oil into another more friendly energy storage medium. We need to get our agriculture off the petroleum, it's unrealistic to expect a stable economy to be based on a limited supply of energy, so renewable fuels and electric technologies are the future, it's a matter of getting these products to market.
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