Where is this propaganda coming from?

Recently developed technology is NOW making biofuel from the waste from cash food crops and from hardy plants that grow on poor soils. If a crop from a given area of land produces both food and biomass for biofuel, farmers have two income sources for the same crop and food could be, if anything, cheaper.

Furthermore, while biofuel crops are growing they CONSUME CO2, compensating for what they produce when burned.

These are facts. Why are they not presented to this Parliamentary committee? And if I can see through the propaganda, why cannot MPs do so? They are supposed to be well informed and looking after our interests.

And why is the Government not studying deep geothermal energy, a well established technology used all over the world?
Deep drilling, as used in the oil industry, makes hot rock accessible even in geologically stable areas like the UK. No pollution, no fuel cost.

Don't our leaders know what is going on?

Peter Lloyd, BLACKER HILL, South Yorkshire

Any fuel that uses oxygen in the burn process generates CO2.
Bio-fuels are not the answer. The area of land to farm biofuels will need to increase substantially. There goes more trees and habitat. Electricity generated by wind, thermal, solar, ocean-current, are the solution to the CO2 pollution problems. We can then use a comprehensive public transport system based solely on electricity. The governments of the world will sell any idea to ensure growth. Say no to biofuels if we want our children to have a liveable planet. Population reduction is the ultimate answer to our environmental problems on this dying planet, earth.

Jim Wills, Brisbane, Australia

Corn derived ethanol production in the U.S., in response to poorly thought-through federal government mandates has driven up the price of tortillas in Latin America, further exacerbating the U.S. illegal immigration problems. As local food sources in Latin America have become unaffordable yet more desparate people have proven willing to risk their very lives to cross the desert along the border from west Texas to eastern California.

Something like this seems to always happen when governments try to mandate the market behavior of free people. That it is a net minus for the environment as well is also not unusual.

Don Bynum, Dallas, USA/TExas