Biofuel's effect on Global Warming


Using biofuel only serves to make global warming worse by liberating more carbon dioxide.

Because of pressures to generate energy by China, India and America for example, fossil fuels will continue to be used until they are exhausted, liberating a certain quantity of carbon dioxide
into the atmosphere.

Carbon dioxide is taken from the atmosphere by vegetation. Biofuel is made from plants growing where vegetation existed before. When this biofuel is burnt it will add more carbon dioxide to the atmosphere making the situation worse. A better way is to plant vegetation which is efficient in taking up carbon dioxide and bury it.


John Fleming, 2009