We are reading a lot about biofuels these days and there are opinions on both sides on whether or not the rush to produce biofuel crops is destructive.
While everyone agrees that we need to wean ourselves away from our dependency on petroleum-based oil products, finding the right "product" or path to accomplishing this is causing concern.
What do you really know about biofuels?
Biofuel, involves a process in which plants, sometimes genetically-altered plants, such as sugar, grain and cellulose, are converted into products that can be used in place of gasoline-based products. Sounds innocent and easy enough, eh? Learn more...
The International Energy Agency published Biofuels for Transport: An International Perspective in 2004. This approx. 200-page book provides a good background into what biofuels are and how they can be used but it does not provide the whole story of biofuel and their destructive natures.
For those who don't read the book and want to know what goes into making a biofuel let's just look at biodiesel...
To make biodiesel, vegetable oil (derived from plants and flowers), used frying oil, or animal fats are mixed with alcohol and a catalyst (sodium or potassium hydroxide), broken down and purified and finally produced. This product can then be used as fuel for your automobile instead of traditional gasoline. I believe some modification is required to your vehicle to use the product but you are expected to know that already...
Why isn't biofuels a great and wonderful thing? And what's the big lie? Read on...
Well, the problem arises in what you don't hear or read about in the effort to make biofuels a reality. While most publications review all the advantages and costs, pro and con, for moving forward with biofuels from an economic viewpoint they don't consider the issue from a social or human viewpoint. In other words, the information doesn't take into account what massive biofuel farming does to the local farmer or to the planet.
So let's look at what the EU has been saying about it...
Oxfam International, a consortium of organizations, is one of several groups that has been voicing concern about the explosion and exploitation of biofuels at the local level. Oxfams' most recent press release of November 1st titled Biofuelling Poverty - EU Plans Could be Disastrous for Poor People discusses the need to look at the affects of biofuel farming in more detail as its results are hazardous to both people and the environment.
Oxfam points out that small landowners are being run-over or run-out by large landowners in the rush to produce biofuel crops. Many small landowners are starving and are no longer able to care for themselves or their families.
The Transnational Institute, an international network of activist-scholars, also have been assessing the biofuel situation and have posted many articles criticizing the global push for biofuel production. Oscar Reyes published Agro-fooling Ourselves in October 2007 and the article summary read:
EU and US targets and subsidies are fuelling a growing demand for ‘agrofuels’. Far from being a sustainable energy source, the increased cultivation of crops for fuel threatens the world’s poor with starvation, damages biodiversity and even contributes to global warming.
If you are reading the materials and articles provided you are, hopefully, hearing the message. Not only are biofuels destructive to the environment but they are destroying people's lives.
Maybe you don't care because these people live in Third World countries and, in the reality of things, that is what our government wants from you. That is, if you are a good New World Order citizen...
Anyway let's look at something closer to home turf - Wal-Mart. Personally, I despise Wal-Mart and will not shop there... If we could stop people from shopping at Wal-Mart we will have accomplished a wonderful thing! Talk about a corporation that exploits people and countries...but don't get me started.
The Clinton Climate Initiative, headed up by Former President Bill Clinton, announced this week that it has teamed up with Wal-Mart (are you surprised!?) to initiate and provide clean energy products. Note that Mr. Al Gore is in the thick of all this, as well, Nobel Peace Prize and all.
As most know, Hillary Clinton served on the board of directors for Wal-Mart for six years so there are close Clinton ties with the local store killer giant. This woman scares me and anyone who backs her, wants her for President or trusts her is out of their mind.
Money Magazine Fortune 500 Corporations #17Another big giant to watch is Home Depot who has teamed up with Conoco on eco-friendly initiatives.
Home Depot and Wal-Mart are members of the Alliance to Save Energy team. Looks like the Alliance to Save Energy team is made up of strong First World players...
All these companies do, the Wal-Mart's, the Home Depot's, and the alliance associates of Alliance to Save Energy, is exploit the little guy - the Third World country people. And biofuels are another, big, very big, exploitation.
In summary, biofuel education is not happening. You are not hearing about how biofuels are destroying lives and destroying our planet. That's the lie. The media manipulators don't want you to hear about that!
And like other events in this country and in this world, information is being suppressed and only the propaganda that the government wants you to hear and know is being circulated. It's called the dumbing down of society.
Biofuels is not the answer to the ill. It is a band-aid and anyone who works in a business environment knows what a band-aid effect is like.
Stop the lies! Don't be a victim of the New World Order propaganda machine. You can fight the "dumbing down" by educating yourself and speaking out. Learn about biofuels and what it really does to people and our environment. Talk to others and educate them. It's never too late...
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1 comment:
Interesting. I don't know much about biofuel but it's good to see someone getting the truth out there. Excellent, informative post Cabal, keep up the good work.
As for alternative fuel/energy sources, I think the NWO is going to keep going until they have completely deprived our planet of all it's oil resource and then out of the blue, someone will stand up and say, "Look what I found," and that person will be hailed as a savior-like figure for our planet (possibly the anti-Christ).
However most of his ideas will be derivatives of another brilliant man, Nikola Tesla, perhaps the one man who could have saved us all if his ideas weren't suppressed and his documents stolen after his death by the FBI and CIA.
But I digress...LoL
Hmmmm....maybe I should do some posts about Tesla?
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