Geography 2143A/B Lecture : 2013-10-22 Energy.docx
27 Mar 2014
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With nearly 20% of the u. s. corn crop already being turned into ethanol, prices have doubled since last summer. That means higher feed costs for chickens, pigs, and cattle and higher prices for meat and poultry at the grocery store. Fields of rapeseed in germany are helping europe move toward its goal of making 5. 75% of diesel fuel from plants. Growing demand for the plant"s oil is pushing up prices for the crop"s other uses, cooking coil and protein meal. Forests cut to make room for fuel crops. The air across indonesia and malaysia was thick with smoke last fall as farmers cleared land for oil palm plantations. The two countries are building scores of factories to turn the oil from the plants into biodiesel for export. Forests are cut to allow increase in plant cultivation in biofuel. Biodiesel is a clean burning alternative fuel, produced from domestic, renewable resources.
