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  Biofool Scams

  the statement:
  "Most of the CO2 in the United States comes from liquid fossil fuels."
  is incorrect
  http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2008/04/06/weekinreview ...
  Most of the CO2 comes from burning coal and gas to produce electricity.

  Biofuels can't compete with fossil diesel fuel and gasoline extracted from coal or tar sands.

  The "Biofuels Take Food From Our Mouths" argument is based on fallacy.  The two most common biofuel feedstocks, corn and soybeans, are grown for animals to feed the industrial meat business producing pork, poultry and beef.  Processing these feedstocks to extract sugars or oils to make biofuels, makes the byproduct 'seed cake' and 'spent mash' more digestible as animal feed.  Thus the animals get more nutrition from the byproduct than the original feedstock, and less is crapped out as waste.  We can get food and fuel from the same crop.

  Granted that the feedstock grains and legumes could be exported to feed the starving millions instead of being used to feed meat animals.  But that practice has been going on for decades, is not likely to change, and is totally external to the biofuels issue.On Industrial agrofuels: enemy of the entire planet posted 1 year, 7 months ago 9 Responses

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  ego displays

  Perhaps vehicle size is like antler size in deer, elk and moose.  The one's with big antlers usualy get the females.On Some are really, really big posted 2 years, 10 months ago 9 Responses

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  Increasing fuel prices

  Increasing fuel prices is one way to encourage conservation and alternatives.  Using taxes to increase fuel prices might be acceptable in the rest of the world, but it ain't gonna fly in the 'land of the free and the home of the brave'.  The entire 'health' of the US economy is predicated on the access to cheap gasoline so people go shopping at malls in their insatiable quest for instant gratification.  As well, there is the 'one man-one horse' mystique promulgated by the urban pick-up truck and it's SUV cousins.  These are symbols of an uberconsumptive lifestyle many aspire to as a measure of social 'success', and these symbols will not be put aside easily.  As long as unrestrained marketing is allowed to prey on the limited intelligence of the vast majority, one will see little meaningful change.  There is too much at stake in preserving the status quo at any cost.On A blogger suggests a $1.00/gallon fuel tax -- after the first 30 gallons posted 2 years, 10 months ago 19 Responses