Define Irony

The movie Con Air had a great description of irony

well this is even better, the loony lefts head long rush to champion bio fuels is the biggest mistake they could have made




On the bio fuel bandwagon - 20 Jul 2008 - NZ Herald: Science News from New Zealand and around the World: "The scale of the effect is still being grasped. An Oxfam report last month argued the biofuel boom has dragged 30 million people into poverty, based on evidence that biofuels accounted for up to 30 per cent of the global rise in food prices. Two weeks later, a leaked World Bank report put that estimate up to 75 per cent, and 100 million people pushed below the poverty line.

Insiders suggest the report wasn't officially released because the figures so dramatically contradict White House claims that plant-derived fuels contribute to less than 3 per cent of food-price rises.

The amount of grain it takes to fill a 4WD tank with ethanol could feed a person for a year.

Biofuels aren't even green - some are adding to global warming.

It's been dubbed the 'great green con'. Although plants absorb carbon, major biofuel crops such as palm oil and corn have been shown to release more carbon in their cultivation than the emissions saved by their use in vehicles. Many palm oil plantations in south-east Asia are based on converted rainforests and peatland, and studies have shown the greenhouse gases released by the clearing of these natural carbon stores far outweigh biofuel carbon savings.


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