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Message: More Evidence Against Biofuels Corporate Knights Forum is against biofuels. We’ve already written about how they replace one bad energy habit with another. Still, people argued that even if corn based fuels do compete with people for diminishing food supplies, at least they are cleaner. Or not. Turns out that researchers are skeptical about those claims. Here is what the International Herald Tribune has to say on the topic: Almost all biofuels used today cause more greenhouse gas emissions than conventional fuels if the pollution caused by producing these “green” fuels is taken into account, two studies published Thursday have concluded. The cause of this environmental rethink? Turns out that in the environmental ledger someone forgot about the line item titled, “Land Use Change.” What’s that? It means that when we change the traditional use of a given piece of land, that change consumes energy, and creates CO2.The clearance of grassland releases 93 times the amount of greenhouse gas that would be saved by the fuel made annually on that land, said Joseph Fargione, the lead author of the other study and a scientist at the Nature Conservancy. www.corporateknightsforum.com