Biofuels

I enjoyed the mock Future Search Conference that we participated in a couple weeks ago. The biofuels issue was timely and interesting. Since the conference, I have heard about biofuel issues quite a lot of the radio, from skyrocketing grain prices to booming beetle-kill tree industries. During the conference we decided that we shouldn't clear beetle-kill trees to burn for fuel because of the damage to the ecosystems. But since then I have heard more about it on the radio, and feel that it might not be such a bad idea. Although I do not support clear cutting the dead trees, I do think that selective thinning could help the economies of poor interior communities. I still don't think that growing biomass just for fuel is a good idea...we need to get off fuel!!