Did we say ‘beyond petroleum’? 4

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   Patrick Mazza Posted 5:38 am
   21 Feb 2008

   BP = Basically Petroleum. . . and always has been
   
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   Erik Hoffner Posted 5:40 am
   21 Feb 2008

   lousyI wonder what this means for the $500 mn BP just decided to give UC Berkeley:
   http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/ ...
   ..to spur research bring clean energy to market...if not a suspension of activities, it will at least bring a new heap of derision on 'ol UCB for working with this company.
   Erik
   
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   GreyFlcn Posted 5:59 am
   21 Feb 2008

   ErikCellulosic BioFuels technology, and Coal-to-Liquids are one in the same.
   
   http://greyfalcon.net/coskata
   But even if they do succeed with biofuels, you have to remember, BP is a liquid fuels distributor.
   So thats perfectly in line with their goal of increasing liquid fuel sales.
   (If you go one further, you have to consider that Petroleum is a biofuel itself as well, just with really old biomass)

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   red green Posted 6:53 am
   21 Feb 2008

   BP = Blatant Propaganda......at least that's what I always understood it to mean.  :-)
   Though you never know.  In Australia, BP plasters the following on public buses:  powered by carbon-neutral fuel ("Talk has long since stopped")

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