Plants are Friends, Not Fuel: WRI Report
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Turning corn and sugar into energy is inefficient and crowds out land that could be better used to produce food, according to an environmental advocacy group.
“The quest for bioenergy at a meaningful scale is both unrealistic and unsustainable,” the World Resources Institute said in a report Thursday. The Washington-based nonprofit group recommended governments phase out biofuel subsidies and limit the amount of ethanol that must be blended with gasoline.