The law of unintended consequences & global warming, iteration #437834
Bookworm on Mar 11 2008 at 10:50 am | Filed under: Uncategorized
Yet another problem with biofuels, the ones that are supposed to be cleaner and help stop global warming. I haven’t seen any reports yet, but I’m sure that part of the rise in food prices will be traced back to the fact that food crops, both those directly supplied to the consumer and those used to feed animals, are being diverted to biofuels, driving prices up everywhere else.
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Women and children die of famine and malnutrition while Gore gets to eat all he wants on jet planes, Book. The Age of the New Aristocracy is always at the doors of American civilization.
Look no further than the price of Haggan Daz - corn oil. Soon I will have to eat cake!
Yes, when we stop growing stuff to feed the cows - or ourselves - and divert it to making your car go, then the cost of the food indeed rises.
And also of course the price of oil contributes to the rise of food prices: most of the industrial fertilizers are petroleum based, and of course the costs of energy to harvest, store, and transport the crops isn’t going down…
As I look at it with as much dispassion as I can muster, I have to conclude that making your car go is just about the most useless waste of what is a genuinely precious substance that could be imagined. That is really just pissing oil away. When you consider that petroleum is at the base of most fertilizers, pesticides, most plastics, a huge percentage of medicines, synthesized products like nylon, rayon, commercially viable rubber and literally hundreds of other things (stuff that in many cases is pretty important, and that we need) - then how much of a godawful unjustifiable waste of it is sticking it in your car!
Hey JJ, what kind of bike do you have? What brand of walking shoes do you recommend?
I would recommend mules as primary transportation except I know from walking behind them in my youth that they emit more than their share of methane.
I wonder if anyone has thought to extract and use the oil and gas readily available to us while the brainiacs search for meaningful alternatives.
Oldflyer - It has probably occurred to anyone whose brain hasn’t been addled by toxic doses of political correctness that tapping our own resources is part of — here’s a term they love — ‘comprehensive’ energy reform!!
The Democrats believe America is great because she exploited indigenous folks and tapped natural resources on this land, stolen from others. Thus the “solution” to tap even more resources is seen by them as barbaric, weak, ineffectual, and immoral.