Error in How We Measure Biofuel Emissions Harms Environment
At this point, it’s pretty well-established that the jury is still out on the good that biofuels do for the environment, but most of that debate is based on how the fuel gets produced. However, a new report published in Science magazine (as reported by NPR) states that, in reality, how we measure emissions from biofuels is what’s really damaging the environment . See, what happens (to paraphrase the NPR story) is that when you burn corn-based ethanol in your bioful car, the government cou
