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Originally Posted by UnderseaLcpl
Biofuel is proof that stupidity is the most powerful force on earth. After all, oil is biofuel too.
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Let's not split hairs. The term clearly indicates a difference - or do you put arab "black sausage" onto your salad just because "oil is oil"?
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This is like the argument against genetically engineered food. Virtually all food is genetically engineered. The only difference is that now we do it at the actual genetic level instead of splicing favourable strains of food crops/animals together.
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Nonsens linking here. when messing with genes at the genetic level you can bring genes together and create new combinations that in nature for whatever a reason maybe never would have formed together, and would not have worked together. another danger is that combinations get created whose effect and consequence within a given context (digesting, environment, physiological effects) are sometimes unknow - sometimes already known to effect your health (animal experiments shown that). After all, the artificially created plant is not identitcal with the naturally fostered plant (else there would be no sense in creating it)
Biofuel production reduces the ammount of farming land used for food production and consumes a lot of fertilizer - which is being created by the use of black oil itself. Let'S leave the criticism to these two facts and leave genetics out of it. It's two different things.