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Oil Company Preaches Morality
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Royal Dutch Shell, the world's top marketer of biofuels, considers using food crops to make biofuels "morally inappropriate" as long as there are people in the world who are starving.
Of course, the problem with starvation isn't the shortage of food, but how it is distributed. |
Eric G Holthusen, Fuels Technology Manager Asia/Pacific, said the company's research unit, Shell Global Solutions, has developed alternative fuels from renewable resources that use wood chips and plant waste rather than food crops that are typically used to make the fuels.
Holthusen said his company's participation in marketing biofuels extracted from food was driven by economics or legislation.
"If we have the choice today, then we will not use this route," Malaysia-based Holthusen said at a seminar in Singapore.
"We think morally it is inappropriate because what we are doing here is using food and turning it into fuel. If you look at Africa, there are still countries that have a lack of food, people are starving, and because we are more wealthy we use food and turn it into fuel. This is not what we would like to see. But sometimes economics force you to do it." |
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| Posted by ZACH GALAFANAKIS on 2006-07-11 17:06:54 | | Obviously it will cut into their profits as well. Hey assholes, we aren't falling for this shit anymore. Shut the f*ck up. |
Shell, Exxon et al
Posted by Thanks for playing on 2006-07-11 20:16:59 | | If they really cared about starving people, then why not share their HUGE profits with the starving people? There's no shortage of food on Earth. If these starving people had cash, they could buy it of the open market. |
| Posted by world peace on 2006-07-17 17:39:52 | MAKE POVERTY HISTORY
DOWN WITH G8
REPRESENT POORER COUNTRIES IN THE UN BETTER |
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