As America rushes to generate more renewable electricity, it has become fashionable to fret that solar and wind farms use too much land.
But America is also racing to produce more renewable fuels, and they use much, much more land to displace much, much less fossil fuel.
And that’s mainly because they’re inefficient land hogs.
That’s a huge waste of precious land the world needs to store carbon that can stabilize our warming climate and grow crops that can help feed the growing population.
Like direct payments, countercyclical payments, loan deficiency payments and other U.S. farm programs, biofuel subsidies redistribute tax dollars from the 99 percent of Americans who don’t farm to the roughly 1 percent who do.
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Organizations:
Environmental Protection Agency
Locations:
California, That’s, Washington, America