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Is it time to end biofuels?

Is it time to end biofuels?

Update: 2023-11-02
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Making fuel out of food. Sounds like it could be pretty sustainable, right? But then again, does it make sense to be growing crops for fuel that could otherwise be food? We travel to the US, Kenya and Germany to interrogate how biofuels came about, their promises and drawbacks and why it is we're still using them. This episode originally aired in December 2023.
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Is it time to end biofuels?

Is it time to end biofuels?

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