Fallacy 18: Biofuels provide clean and renewable energy
Update: 2025-07-22
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In this podcast, we struggle to understand the logic of converting natural environments to monocultures or the rationale for cutting down vast areas of forest. We question the reasons for using bioethanol when the energy required to produce one litre of fuel is less than the energy it generates. And why does the UN categorise biofuels as clean, green, renewable energy when they produce CO2 emissions that are comparable to burning fossil fuels? This is just one more in the list of 21 Popular Environmental Fallacies.
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