{"id":19,"date":"2007-02-04T04:03:46","date_gmt":"2007-02-04T04:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/biodiesel-pollution-health-global-warming-conspiracy-or-not\/"},"modified":"2017-09-05T17:56:04","modified_gmt":"2017-09-05T21:56:04","slug":"biodiesel-pollution-health-global","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/biodiesel-pollution-health-global\/","title":{"rendered":"Biodiesel pollution, health & global warming: Conspiracy or not?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"biodieselIt all started when I read Once a Dream Fuel, Palm Oil May Be an Eco-Nightmare – New York Times<\/a>. This article is about how palm oil producers are expanding their arable land by draining wetlands and burning peat.<\/p>\n

And then I read Biodiesel Exhaust: The Need for Health Effects Research<\/a>, which seems to be a scientific scare article about potential health problems with biodiesel. Of course it does admit that the same studies should be done with petroleum-based diesel as well.
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And I start to wonder about how many negative stories does their need to be about bio-diesel before the shine starts to come off of it for most of the developed world?<\/p>\n

Of course this article, AEI think tank sought critique of climate report | Reuters.com<\/a>, raised my conspiracy concerns.<\/p>\n

And then I read this one, too: BBC NEWS | Americas | Mexicans stage tortilla protest<\/a>. The sentence that got my goat was “Under the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement, Mexico used to get cheap corn imports from the US, but Mexico’s Economy Minister Eduardo Sojo has said that with more US corn being diverted into ethanol production, supply is dwindling.” So now alternative energy is starving poor Mexicans.<\/p>\n

Is this all a conspiracy of brilliant negative public relations or am I reading too much into these articles?<\/p>\n

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