As high as a Humvee's Eye, Yee-haa!

Ooooooo...klahoma!

Fuelling the crisis

'I came to this late today, and am surprised that it has generated so few responses, especially with Davos ongoing, and the leader of one of the bigger consuming/polluting countries getting behind what, at first blush, seems better than nothing: 'Big Corn' doesn't have quite the same scary coastline devastating cachet, really.

Not too sure about Greenpeace, but it's nice to see a considered, informative and on the whole thought-provoking piece on the subject by a director of Friends of the Earth.

In the same way as I have my doubts about whacking a fir in the Australian desert to keep on flying, I am so far not too sure how converting the world's food producing acreages into carbon-dioxide fuel generating plants helps much when there is a finite amount of land and a growing population expanding across it.

Especially when a lot that once did support crop growth seems to have gone a bit dusty or underwater of late.'

Frying pan. Fire. No food.

Go green, Farmer Giles

"As with so many things in environmental debates, I confess to suffering from a slight lack of objective, factual information to help me follow debates.

One issue involving the above that has generated concerns for me surrounds so-called bio-fuels.

I have a vision of, and hence problem with the notion of driving, carbon-neutrally, through our green (or whatever colour bio-fuel crops are) and pleasant land, trying to find something locally-produced to eat. Should we not be encouraging moves towards less transport and more local production of essentials?

While it may work for Brazil (on the assumption they haven't whacked down green-lung rain forests to do so), they have a tad more space to play with. Do we?

Given the option, I'd prefer to stick with food."