Source: Dundee Courier
Pub
date: Tuesday September 7, 2004
Pub
LTE: Biofuels are the future
Author:
Hugh Roberston
Biofuels
are the future
Sir,
Donald Macleod's letter (August 27) contending that petrol prices should be
coming down due to extra tax revenue from North Sea oil
would
only be correct if we exported more than we imported - we don't. The fact is
the world is fast running out of petrochemicals to exploit
and
prices will continue to climb until we return to using agriculture as our
source.
Biofuels
are the future for fuel, and are where farmers should be looking as many face
yet another year of appalling prices for grain. Forget windfarms polluting the
landscape, just grow our fuel - hemp, willow, poplar and oilseed rape are
amongst the best, but almost any plant
material
can be used along with animal slurry and some industrial waste.
Hugh
Robertson.
Barrack
Street,
Perth.