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It seems unlikely to me that the rich of the world will decide to stop dealing in energy because it has always made so much money for them. A sustainable world will likely be given to us by the same old corporations we have now. Sorry. Of course, we should not encourage this. In the competition between food and energy, it is sometimes possible to have your cake and eat it too. It is known that if a bushel of corn is fermented to produce alcohol, when the fermentation byproduct is fed to cattle, more growth is obtained than by feeding the original corn to them. As industrialized countries cut back on petroleum use, I am resigned to expect that other countries will emerge to consume the savings. I think this is partly good, as most of the world is currently starved for energy as in other ways. I believe we must find new "fields" to plant-- to make fuel from waste, including wood and crop waste, stop the use of petrofertilizers, and learn to sustainably /responsibly husband the oceans. My view is that energy use will continue to increase. We must find better sources besides fossil carbon. And, yes, it is all possible. I am working on it. Care to join me? See a separate post to follow on my diesel car. Ernie Rogers Keith Addison said, 1. There is NO WAY the current diesel consumption, petroleum consumption, or energy consumption of the industrialised nations can be or should be sustained. Merely substituting biofuels for fossil-fuels isn't even the beginning of an answer. A sustainable energy future requires great reductions of energy use, great improvements in energy efficiency, and decentralisation of supply to the local level, along with the judicious application of ALL available ready-to-use renewable energy technologies in combination as best fits local conditions. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Yahoo! Domains - Claim yours for only $14.70 http://us.click.yahoo.com/Z1wmxD/DREIAA/yQLSAA/FGYolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/biofuel/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
