Comment & Debate
Deforestation diesel – the madness of biofuel. Bulletin. Retrieved 10.3.07
“Biofuels, Food, or Wildlife. The Massive Land Cost of U.S. Ethanol”. Competitive Enterprise Institute. September 21, 2006 – “The United States might well have to clear an additional 50 million acres of forest—or more—to produce economically significant amounts of liquid transport fuels. Despite the legend of past U.S farm surpluses, the only large reservoir of underused cropland in America is about 30 million acres of land—too dry for corn— enrolled in the Conservation Reserve. Ethanol mandates may force the local loss of many wildlife species, and perhaps trigger some species extinctions. Soil erosion will increase radically as large quantities of low-quality land are put into fuel crops on steep slopes and in drought-prone regions.”