Five years ago most environmentalists thought that biofuels were unconditionally good. If you grew your own fuel, the reasoning went, you could grow an infinite supply and the carbon emitted when the food was burnt as fuel would be recycled by being soaked up again into the structures of new growing biocrops.
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