That the man was able to complete a sentence well enough for someone to make sense enough of it to "sum up" anything!

Good Job, Dubya! Those meda are wonderful, aren't they?

If you continue to do what you've always done you'll continue to get what you've always got. - Yogi Berra

He led off that speech by noting that "America's got to change its habits. It's got to get off oil."

So we've got a simple mind in the white house.  And consistency is the hobgoblin of simple minds.  Would it therefore be too much to hope that this might immediately be followed by an announcement that we're going to roll back some of those oil & gas tax breaks to fund renewables and energy efficiency that keeps getting stalled in the senate?  It would be consistent, no?

Hope springeth eternal...

Not many around here have followed the failing fortunes of fuel farming either.  

Once and for all could we give the invisible elephant in the room a paint job?   When biomass is guzzled as gas, the carbon sink activity of the soil is rendered null and void. Sugar cane, wood chips, corn, beets, whatever...

No way around it. Biomass that goes up into the atmosphere as GHG from a tail pipe does not go into the ground to build a healthy, carbon sink soil ecosystem.

And because of the late stage of addressing GHG climate disaster, not only curtailing as much GHG emmission as possible is necessary, but as much carbon sink activity as possible must also be restored.

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Dubya can't actually read.

At least with sugar cane you get a high btu product that comes closer to working and you use the waste to fuel the next batch.

Not even the answer for a country that sucks up as much fuel as we do but if you use this food product and drive the price sky high on it you will get the side benefit of shrinking some large fat ass americans. Maybe then they could get more into walking and make a healthier nation.

Stop all grain sales and give away's  for shipment over seas until the food prices for the american consumer goes down. When you dry up the world market then start charging OPEC $100 dollars a bushel for corn, wheat, barley. It will not take long to force some economic and environmental sanity upon the system.

You talk about soil depletion, did you ever try to raise corn in Saudi Arabia.

The eons of time and nature was good to us down here. It was not until we become civilized that destroying our habitat become fathomable or fashionable.

"W" is certainly no friend of the environment, but it's time to stop blaming him, and to start doing your part.  Every time you flip on a light switch, you become part of the problem.  Forget about the grandiose political speeches about the future of renewables.  Our leadership says one thing, but does just the opposite.  We can wait no longer for help from them.  Too often we get hung up on the "payback" of a PV system.  Instead of going forward, we decide to wait until the price come down.  Meanwhile, our air, water, and land becomes more polluted each day.  God only knows how much suffering and how many premature deaths are caused by burning fossil fuels.  It's time to take matters into our own hands.  When people lead, leaders follow.  Let's Roll!

Solar John

Maybe you rolled one too many already if you want to stop blaming duuhbya.  Just say no.

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...and you'll get nowhere.  

Solar John

It's not the making of biofuels that we need.   We just got to pass a law saying if you fly somewhere, you can't go back for a year.    That'll reduce all that fuel use.