John-Henry
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Reged: Sep 25 2000
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Loc: McNeal, AZ
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Re: I just wanted to be the first to blame Gore fo
Wed Apr 16 2008 05:46 PM
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Actually I agree with the fella.
The funny thing is that Al Gore does too; I don't know how he got into the middle of this, considering that he's made the exact same argument with regard to biofuels.
Oil topped $115.00 per barrel today; if that keeps up the market will winnow the idiots (and the mid-western Congressmen who are slaved to the farm economy, and to hell with everyone else).
Grain-based biofuels are inefficient, wasteful, and costly (more costly than burning gasoline, by many measures), and only in the U.S. of A. could we so vociferously advance such a bad idea.
I'm not one to automatically assume that the United States is the best and the brightest at everything (how can one with The Shrub as President?) but it does sadden me a little that Brazil had a majority of their motor vehicles running on sugarcane-based ethanol in the 1980's, long before the U.S. had any real idea that current conditions could arise.
There are lots of alternative feedstocks that can be used to make ethanol that are higher-yielding and non-edible, and that don't impact global food supplies; unfortunately our current crop of politicians are too short-sighted to see the big picture at the moment, although as I mentioned corrective measures are coming in short order.
Barak hob-nobs with Gore all the time, among other things.
John-Henry
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