Money Programme: Green Fuel Gamble

The Money Programme this week covers the controversial issue of bio-fuel subsidies and the environmental costs and benefits.

“Biofuels are being touted by governments, oil companies and car manufacturers as a green solution to our fuel problems. In two years five per cent of all the fuel sold in the UK will be Biofuel. But critics say it’s actually environmentally damaging and growing crops like corn and sugar cane for fuel diverts land from food production. The Money Programme’s Libby Potter meets the businesses and consumers who have invested in the so called green fuel and investigates what’s at stake in the battle for a greener future.”

One for the DVD recorder?

Unit 1 Micro: Revision Presentation on Government Intervention [16 May 2012]
Unit 1 Micro: Revision Presentation on Externalities [16 May 2012]
Unit 1 Micro: Public Bads [12 May 2012]
musical negative externalities [1 May 2012]
Unit 1 Micro: Using the Cost-Benefit Principle [30 Apr 2012]
Unit 1 Micro: Externalities - Deepwater Horizon 2 Years On [21 Apr 2012]
Unit 1 Micro: Revision on Producer Subsidies [2 Apr 2012]
Unit 1 Micro: Government launches New Buy Loan Guarantee Scheme [12 Mar 2012]
Unit 1 Micro: Can the UK Computer Games Industry Grow [24 Jan 2012]
Externalities in Action- TED Talk [23 Jan 2012]
Externalities in song [22 Jan 2012]
Externalities Cartoon [22 Jan 2012]
Unit 3 Micro: The Economics of Solar Subsidies [18 Jan 2012]
Unit 1 Micro: Revision MC Questions on Negative Externalities [8 Jan 2012]
Unit 1 Micro: Externalities from Metal Theft [2 Jan 2012]
Unit 1 Micro: Video Clips on Negative Production Externalities [29 Dec 2011]
Behavioural Economics: Herd Behaviour [28 Nov 2011]
Keeping it local [24 Nov 2011]
Unit 1 Micro: Is the Sun Dipping on Solar Subsidies? [27 Oct 2011]
Fat tax: Denmark [5 Oct 2011]
Electric car charging points ‘shortfall’ [11 May 2011]
Externalities of Oil Pollution [22 Apr 2011]
Key AS Micro Terms: Taxes and Subsidies [18 Apr 2011]
Externalities of Nitrogen Pollution in Europe [16 Apr 2011]
Tuesday Talks - the cycling city [8 Mar 2011]
Economics Q&A: Should the CAP be scrapped? [14 Feb 2011]
EU Economics: Hopes for a low carbon future in Europe [3 Feb 2011]
The Externalities of Plastic [24 Jan 2011]
Economics Q&A: Tragedy of the Commons and Market Failure [18 Jan 2011]
Using Google Docs - AS Applied Micro on Car Subsidies [21 Nov 2010]
Chips - a demerit good. [11 Nov 2010]
Switching Off Street Lighting [10 Nov 2010]
Picturenomics (1) - Congestion and Externalities [18 Oct 2010]
Finding new opportunities among the economic wreckage [1 Jun 2010]
Economics of the EU Revision - Carbon Taxes [26 May 2010]
Is the UK coal industry turning a corner? [24 May 2010]
AS Economics Revision - Government Failure [18 May 2010]
End of the Road for the Car Scrappage Scheme [31 Mar 2010]
Recycling batteries - keeping things simple [10 Feb 2010]
Some new video pieces on externalities [2 Feb 2010]
Is hitch-hiking the most carbon efficient form of transport? [17 Jan 2010]
Alcohol information failure [13 Jan 2010]
Consumption externalities in Singapore [17 Nov 2009]
New series of BBC Earth Report - Deforestation and Externalities [27 Oct 2009]
The trade impact of car scrappage [29 Sep 2009]
Scots may lead the way in setting minimum price for alcohol [29 Sep 2009]
Second-hand car market – law of unintended consequences [13 Sep 2009]
Signs that Scrappage is Driving Demand [10 Aug 2009]
£1bn programme to electrify the Great Western Mainline [23 Jul 2009]
Scrappage scheme makes tracks [13 Jul 2009]
Q&A: Demerit Goods and Negative Production Externalities [31 May 2009]
Economies of Scale for Wind Farms [23 May 2009]
Sewage - The Fuel of the Future? [4 May 2009]
Electric cars - subsidise the consumer or producer? [9 Apr 2009]
Q&A: What is a scrappage subsidy and will it work in the UK? [7 Apr 2009]
Steel Industry may face meltdown [27 Jan 2009]
Consumers stung by slump in bee population [21 Nov 2008]
Further rise signalled in rail fares [21 Nov 2008]
Experinomics Resources [17 Nov 2008]
The Folly of Growth [26 Oct 2008]
Not just for profit - a new breed of social entrepreneur [7 Oct 2008]
Back to the cave or a brave new world? [22 Sep 2008]
China’s currency manipulation to soften the slowdown [26 Aug 2008]
Will the sunshine on this solar subsidy? [18 Jul 2008]
Oil sands - an enviromental catastrophe? [11 Jul 2008]
Weigh less - pay less [28 Jun 2008]
Adjusting to oil price super spikes [11 Jun 2008]
Indonesia to leave OPEC [29 May 2008]
Protecting the Natural Health Service [19 May 2008]
Revision: Labour Market Failure [21 Apr 2008]
Simple ideas work best [16 Apr 2008]
Bio-fuel curse and cure [15 Apr 2008]
OCR 2888 - June Case Study - Broad Themes [24 Mar 2008]
Dioxin contamination and illegal dumping of waste [22 Mar 2008]
The Big Question looks at carbon trading [11 Mar 2008]
Russia’s new road to economic growth [10 Mar 2008]
Information failure on plastic bags? [9 Mar 2008]
The Economics of Food Waste [9 Mar 2008]
Merit and De_Merit Goods [7 Mar 2008]
Logging in Alaska - an Environmental Catastrophe? [4 Feb 2008]
Is the Smoking Ban Working? [30 Jan 2008]

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