I tried, but I just couldn't let this one alone...
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote that bio-ethanol is generally an impractical and
prohibitively expensive idea. This sounds to me like prime propaganda from
the petroleum industry.
I am still questioning the real climatologic and environmental
I often wonder why the US is always so upset with OPEC when you get most
of your imported oil from Canada...?? Yes, Canada is the single largest
supplier of US oil.
I wholeheartedly agree with the space race analogythat should have
been going on for a decade now. All of this peak oil talk
Jeff Zedic wrote:
I often wonder why the US is always so upset with OPEC when you get most
of your imported oil from Canada...?? Yes, Canada is the single largest
supplier of US oil.
People still remember the 1970s, when OPEC was a big enough player to
manipulate the prices at will.
I strongly suspect the Founding Fathers were quite well aware that
adjustments would need to be made to the Constitution -- it was, after
all, quite a novel experiment.
In those days, there was no mass transportation of anything, period.
All economics were pretty much local except for highly
Mitch Haley wrote:
Can you imagine what would happen if the federal government restricted
itself to the matters that the Constitution allows it to meddle in, and
lowered overall taxes by 95%? They could get by on tariffs and excise taxes,
and millions of former government workers would be out
An Energy Field of Dreams
June 17, 2006; Page A10
Be like Brazil have never been words to live by except perhaps in soccer
or samba. But suddenly Americans are being told we should imitate Brazil in its
expensive devotion to driving cars that run on ethanol. VeraSun Energy, the
At some time fairly close to Fri, 23 Jun 2006 22:06:55 EDT,
rumor has it that [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Can Ethanol Solve the Nation's Energy Problems?2
URL for this article:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB115049715522182863.html
Maybe biodiesel can. But not from soybeans!
I must
but now we have nanoDiesel!
Chris
David Brodbeck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sorry. The most widely cited research on this subject comes from Cornell's
David Pimental and Berkeley's Ted Patzek. They've found that it takes more
than
a gallon of fossil fuel to make
Gee, if those teensy weensy subsidies are all that would get paid to the
corn folks, we'd better jump on it. That's nothing compared to all the
direct and indirect subsidies that we shell out to the oil companies.
A couple of years ago the estimates for what a gal of gas really costs
in the us
mean.
Mike
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From: David Brodbeck [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: Saturday, June 24, 2006 12:34 AM
Subject: Re: [MBZ] Ethanol/from the WSJ
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sorry. The most widely cited research on this subject comes
Unless we change our farming practices, I suspect there is more energy
consumed in the production of crops than there is BTU in the finished
fuel (particularly ethanol, due to the distillation required).
Biofuels can help quite a bit, especially using waste oils as diesel or
biodiesel, but we
What, DECENTRALIZATION HERESY!!! BUILD THE BONFIRES BURN THE
HERETICS! DEFEND THE ORTHODOXY
Centralization of production rather than distributed production (of
anything) is one of the reasons we consume so much oil. Shipping oosts
then dictate all sorts of stupid waste
Monopolies strangle trade, that's why they were either broken up or
regulated heavily in the late 1920's -- even JP Morgan and other
Robber Barons supported income taxes and government regulation of
business, after the gleaming example of what happens when government
doesn't (e.i. the Great
Makes a person wonder when anyone would champion no government or
market driven economies. I guess all the experienced voices have
retired
They're wonderful. The part that needs forcible restraint is that
which allows for decreasing competition. When the economy is comprised
of many
Jim Cathey wrote:
Makes a person wonder when anyone would champion no government or
market driven economies. I guess all the experienced voices have
retired
They're wonderful. The part that needs forcible restraint is that
which allows for decreasing competition. When the
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