What are the benefits of biofuels?
Using ethanol or biodiesel to create electricity can replace imported fossil fuels with homegrown “local” energy. It can create jobs here in agriculture, manufacturing and other support services. More agriculture can protect open space by using it productively for a green crop, like sugar, sorghum, eucalyptus or other biofuel feed stocks. It will keep more money at home instead of sending it out of state to buy fossil fuels and it will grow a more sustainable economy. Also, biofuels burn more cleanly than most fossil fuels, helping to keep the air even cleaner. Because they come from recently grown crops, biofuels are close to “carbon neutral,” meaning they do not contribute to climate change and global warming as fossil fuels do. They have fewer emissions while they are burned and while they are growing they are actually taking carbon dioxide out of the environment.
