How To Make Tobacco Popular Again - Turn It Into Biofuel
Biofuels were all the rage in the 1990s. Sustainable, activists said, because they refused to do math. It was only when Republicans mandated and subsidized biofuels in 2005 that environmentalists realized there must be something very wrong with them and $10 billion per year of wasted tax dollars on fuels actually worse for the environment for oil are what we have. If biofuels can make oil companies look good, imagine what they can do for something like tobacco. Researchers from the Biotechnology Foundation Laboratories at Thomas Jefferson University say they have identified a way to increase the oil in tobacco plant leaves, which may be the next step in using the plants for biofuel, according to a paper in Plant Biotechnology Journal. read more