Guest Editorial: The Terrible Illusion of BiodieselEric Brooksbyline‚ Nov. 26‚ 2007I read with shocked and tired eyes E. "Doc" Smith's recent glowing article about San Francisco's biodiesel program. As an environmental activist with over two decades experience, every time I see an article like this, I lose another little bit of precious life and hope. Smith and others like him, trumpeting the valor of biodiesel and other biofuels, need to knock it off immediately. Biodiesel does -not- produce fewer greenhouse gas emissions than petroleum diesel, in fact it produces more. And the reality gets even worse than that. Biodiesel and other biofuels have suddenly become a huge booming industry which, because of the the nature of how those fuels are produced, is now destroying the planet and human civilization much faster than global warming. |