Re: cars was [H] google search for "failure"

[Hayes Elkins]

In one of the articles you linked earlier - the author mentions that even if 
biodiesel or some other green fuel achieves a perfect balance of widespread 
use with low resources used to cultivate, in the end it means nothing unless 
the population of the earth slows or is capped altogether. His suggestions 
of intelligent contraception are spot on - however the biggest roadblock for 
this is the stupidity that is religion.

From: "Thane Sherrington (S)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: Re: cars was [H] google search for "failure"
Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2006 15:17:06 -0400

At 02:25 PM 03/03/2006, Hayes Elkins wrote:
Except....you do not need soybeans to make biodiesel! Pretty much any 
vegetable oil can be used at this point although the refining has been 
optimized (thus far) for soy. Imagine all the subs paid to farmers to NOT 
GROW A THING when these farmers could now be biodiesel sources.

But I'm betting that biodiesel doesn't compare to oil for the amount of 
energy per pound.  According to one of those articles: "the fossil fuels we 
burn in one year were made from organic matter 'containing 44 x 1018 grams 
of carbon, which is more than 400 times the net primary productivity of the 
planet's current biota'" - if that's true, then even if all the nongrowing 
farmers grow for biodiesel (a good idea, I think) we still aren't going to 
keep up with our wild demands.   Perhaps a shift to better mass transport 
and smaller, more efficient vehicles (all using biodiesel) would make the 
difference, but I don't see that happening, unfortunately - not while we 
have an oilman in the Whitehouse and a Bushophile from Alberta running 
things up here.

T