Whenever I hear our dear president speak I think about Lincoln and his foolin' folks. Now, here is one of the ideas being run around that has got to have the oil companies smilin' and sure has the "greenies" fooled.
First, farming is the most energy intensive of all the industries. Farmers burn and chemically use more oil than anybody else. Oil runs tractors and combines, heats kilns and water, and makes the pestisides and lubricants. Oil fuels the transports that bring food to market and seed and feed back to the farmer. Oil even packages our food and is used these days to make the feed bags.
Now the oil industry wants us to "grow" our fuel? Is this ridiculous? Somebodies perpetual motion machine?
The other weird thing I heard was that somehow these non-fossil fuels were "green". Now don't get me wrong if we have to burn stuff I think burnin' french fry oil from McD's or fish heads from the cannining plant is well and good...but if those that say CO2 is the #1 "greenhouse" gas are correct; you are probably gonna get even more CO2 burnin' less efficient fuels. That is, where there is fire there is smoke, to reverse an old adage.
Stop using burning as the method of generating energy if you want to stop CO2 as a greenhouse gas...from a global stand point Willie and George there isn't anything "green" about "bio-diesel" or ethanol in fact it may be the opposite, except the "green backs" for certain constituents.
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