Comments on: Another Oil-Powered Hanukah Miracle: Rabbi’s Grease-Powered Mercedes http://jcarrot.org/another-oil-powered-hanukah-miracle-rabbis-grease-powered-mercedes/ Jews, Food, and Contemporary Issues Sun, 07 Sep 2008 02:47:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 By: Sarah Rose http://jcarrot.org/another-oil-powered-hanukah-miracle-rabbis-grease-powered-mercedes/#comment-66 Sarah Rose Mon, 08 Jan 2007 01:47:36 +0000 http://jcarrot.org/another-oil-powered-hanukah-miracle-rabbis-grease-powered-mercedes/#comment-66 Challahman: there are biofuels that don't compete with feed crops - palm and rapeseed, for instance. And there is always the magic promise of cellulosic ethanol out of switchgrass.... Challahman: there are biofuels that don’t compete with feed crops - palm and rapeseed, for instance. And there is always the magic promise of cellulosic ethanol out of switchgrass….

]]> By: Challahman http://jcarrot.org/another-oil-powered-hanukah-miracle-rabbis-grease-powered-mercedes/#comment-36 Challahman Mon, 01 Jan 2007 10:27:44 +0000 http://jcarrot.org/another-oil-powered-hanukah-miracle-rabbis-grease-powered-mercedes/#comment-36 Even vegitable oil requires alot of high energy processing to make. Biofuel processes turn food into energy, but the result of using more food for energy is higher food prices as the demand for food and biofuels will outpace our abilities to produce it, especially with the shifting weather patterns. It also poses a huge moral dilemma in using biofuels as our thirst for "cleaner" energy will likely result in more people starving in the world (the result of less food supply, higher prices). See Lester Brown's book Plan B 2.0 for more info on this. Ugggg!!! Challahman Even vegitable oil requires alot of high energy processing to make. Biofuel processes turn food into energy, but the result of using more food for energy is higher food prices as the demand for food and biofuels will outpace our abilities to produce it, especially with the shifting weather patterns. It also poses a huge moral dilemma in using biofuels as our thirst for “cleaner” energy will likely result in more people starving in the world (the result of less food supply, higher prices). See Lester Brown’s book Plan B 2.0 for more info on this. Ugggg!!!

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