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TOHA Heavy Industries
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Posted - 2008.10.10 16:36:00 -
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 Originally by: Che Villa
Edited by: Che Villa on 09/10/2008 20:11:29
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Energy independence should be paramount to the next leadership. Hundreds of billions of petro dollars sent to far off lands so they can build islands that look like palm trees. Take that $700 Billion from the buyout and use that money to reward companies for the first efficient cellulosic ethanol plant that produces ethanol efficiently. Use that money to reward advances that directly influence a decrease in our dependence of foreign oil.
Only about 22% of the oil we import in America comes from the Persian Gulf, that seems like a good place to start. Americans could probably achieve that simply by changing their lifestyles a bit. We've already decreased the amount of gas consumed because of the high gas costs.
In my opinion, the high gas costs, and this current Wall Street debacle is good for us Americans. We needed a kick in the pants. And don't buy into the fear. Local banks are still giving out loans, those of us who didn't spend like mad men are doing good. Unemployment is still well below levels in Europe, and, up until the ****ing Fed cut the rate earlier this week, the dollar was doing fairly well amid the crisis.
We will weather the current storm, it is the storm gathering that I am really afraid of.
While I agree with you that dependency to oil is a major problem, Using Ethanol growed from land that used to grow food will just make the matter worst.
And farming use a lot of energy in itself. For Instance, If France would fuel on bio-fuel only, they will need to use somewhere around 80% of their territory to feed those bio-reactor to produce the fuel that they need. Using bio fuel will dramatically increase price of food due to lack of farming land. Its also not fully clean technology, it still burn CO2 to the atmosphere and you will need to allocate more land to agriculture, at the expanse of forests.
There is already food crisis going on in some African country where citizen cannot afford rice anymore because farmers are moving to produce grain for petroleum corporations. Once the beef your eating everyday will cost 20$ a kilo for cheap cuts, You will be screwed twice.
However, producing ethanol from industrial wastes is wise. But growing plant in the sole purpose of selling ethanol is just Corporation propaganda to reuse their technology. Its better to have a decentralised power grid that use Wind power, Dam or even nuclear when there is no other choice. And reusing your wastes on site.
But of course to move to that, you will have to step on many toes that somehow have better access to the floor of the white house than the US citizen Mass.
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