Day four of Idle-fest 2008. What better time to consider the sugar beet? In PEI, a company setting up to produce biofuels may move elsewhere due to further review of their plans:

The provincial environmental and renewable industries committee on Tuesday released a report recommending a new government committee be set up to evaluate potential biofuel projects. The report also stated that in order for the province to support an ethanol plant, sugar beets would use up all Island farmland not currently in potato production.

Now, while I will gladly point out that I know nothing about much at all, you might think that trading one ground cover mono-culture for another might not be wisest thing to be doing. In the UK there are calls for reviewing biofuel plans, too:

Professor Robert Watson said ministers should await the results of their inquiry into biofuels' sustainability. Some scientists think biofuels' carbon benefits may be currently outweighed by negative effects from their production. The Renewable Transport Fuels Obligation (RTFO) is to introduce 2.5% biofuels at the pumps from 1 April. Professor Robert Watson warned that it would be insane if the RTFO had the opposite effects of the ones intended.

Me, I am looking at algae fuels for my RRSP investments as I never really expect to really do well with my money. At least great big green ocean mats of goo will leave the land for the important crops - hops and barley and such.