"Renewable fuels got a "bit ahead of themselves in the public eye in 2008 when gasoline was over $4 a gallon and the race to biofuels was on," said Chris Kraft, president of Nashville, Tenn.-based CKFutures.com. "High fossil fuels lead to high demand for ethanol, which lead to historically high grain prices, which made ethanol as expensive as gasoline." <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />

When I was  child my mother used to worship BARGAD  i.e. Ficus bengalensis and  PEEPAL  i.e.   Ficus religiosa on a particular day in month of June calling Badmawas i.e. dark moon day falling in summer. BOTH THE TREES HAVE LIVES OF OVER SEVERAL HUNDRED YEARS.
We have to find a tree to worship it The idea was to grow this tree which will protect the people.
It was sin to cut the twigs of Ficus religiosa. 
A festival in winter time was to worship AMLA i.e Phyllanthus emblica  
Lord Shiva has to be worshiped with leaves of Belpatra Balanites aegyptiaca. and Datura stramonium fruits, and Calotropis procera flowers besides others.

Women in rural India spend hours together traversing vast tracts of hilly terrain to collect the firewood for household leaving their family and children at home. Some times there is "Pakad" i.e. Forest Officials detain them and fine them Rs 2100 as they nerrated. Besides facing the hazards to wild life and human beings praying on lonely women in woods they face the smoke and closed door cooking in dingy houses without the smoke outlet their kids are also exposed to high dosages of smoke.

There are 5 specific groups working on biofuel and all with different meanings and purposes and ends.

First group is people like me who started working on biofuel when Professor Melvin Calvin found out that during second world war plants were used to obtain biofuel and he started the work at UC Davis California almost in 1973 or so follow by others However once the prices and crisis came down people forgot this work or tried to put is aside.

Professor Dr. Ashwani Kumar Professor of Botany Hon Director, Life Sciences Energy Plantation Demonstration Project Center, Department of Botany, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur, 302004. Phone 00 91 141 654100 Fax 00 91 141 565905 Email. msku4@hotmail.com Summary:

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