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Time Magazine vs. Biodiesel Industry?
By Mr Ethanol | April 4, 2008
dBusinessNews Houston:
The most recent cover of Time Magazine raises questions and may muddy waters, according to Kent Batman, President of Hardin Fuels. The magazine treats biodiesel and ethanol as if they are synonymous. That could not be further from the truth, according to Batman.
In near prophetic fashion, Batman wrote an article about the confusion created by the media in last week’s Houston Business Review. That article came out days before the Time Magazine piece.
The following is that article from the Houston Business Review and Kent Batman will be on the Houston Business Show tomorrow (Thursday April 3rd) at 11 AM central. He will be able to be heard on CNN 650 in Houston or online at HoustonBusinessShow.com.
Lies about the Biodiesel Industry
The biodiesel industry has been under attack by some unusual adversaries lately and these opponents have employed some serious misrepresentations. Here are some examples:
Fallacy #1: The biodiesel industry takes “food” and makes it into fuel.
Biodiesel is made of oil extruded from crops such as cottonseed, sunflower, rice bran, canola, soybean etc. when these crops are extruded and the oil removed, the by-product is now a much more effective livestock feed. In the case of rice bran, the meal is made stable as rice bran decays very quickly if not stabilized (extruded). Most rice bran was lost for any use until fairly recently and brought about in large part by the bio-fuels industry.
There is also a great move toward crops with no human food uses such as Algae, Jatropha etc. Read full article.
Topics: Biodiesel, Industry, News |
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