The Biofuel Illusion

By Julia Olmstead, AlterNet. Posted July 7, 2006.

The focus on biofuels to solve our energy and climate change crises could have potentially disastrous environmental consequences.

There's been a lot of talk lately about the promise of biofuels -- liquid fuels like ethanol and biodiesel made from plants -- to reduce our dependence on oil. Even President Bush beat the biofuel drum in his last State of the Union speech.