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Corn and Rapeseed Biofuels Release More Carbon than Petroleum via Earth Blog
Shockingly, a new scientific study finds that two prominent biofuels release more carbon [more] than burning comparable amounts of oil and petroleum. Corn based biofuel [search], prevelant in the United States, was found to release up to 50% more carbon than oil; and rapeseed based biofuel [search] which is the norm in Europe was found to release as much as 70% more carbon.
Agrofuels produced by burning food crops have been tauted as a climate change solution with great economic benefits. In fact they have intensified deadly climate change and terrestrial ecosystem decline. Major concerns have emerged regarding food based biofuels and resultant increases in food prices [search], human rights issues [search], and loss of rainforests [search] and other natural habitats. And now we find it...