On Sun, 10 May 2009 21:09:46 -0700, David Nebenzahl
wrote:

After hearing a comment about this on a PBS talking-heads show, I found
a couple articles confirming what was said: a team of researchers
compared turning an equal amount of biomass into biofuel to producing
electricity from it to power an electric car. The winner? The electric
car, by far (on the order of 80% more).

Articles he
http://www.technologyreview.com/energy/22628
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNew...90510/20090510

Of course, this is only part of the picture. While this indicates it
would make more sense to put our eggs in the electric-car basket, rather
than funding more biofuel research, the problem remains of the high cost
of electric vehicles, and the greater difficulty of converting the
world's cars to run on electricity rather than an "alternative" fuel.
(Not to mention the yet-unsolved problems of better battery storage.)

But it's interesting. Discuss amongst yourselves.

There is no clear winners yet. There are a lot of "studies"
"Proving" this or that, while ignoring side issues that often are
larger than the part they are measuring.

We are still in the early stages of finding the best way to
go. Let's keep the free for all going until we really have a winner
or two.