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Fuel Vs. Food: Recipe for Disaster - Yum!


Green Lifestyle  (tags: eco-friendly, greenlifestyle, sustainability )

Noelle
- 797 days ago - planetsave.com
Tsp. Water Shortages Cup of Natural disasters 1/2 cup of Famine Dash of over-population Box of Global Warming Mixed with a batch of land once used to grow crops now being used for biofuels
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Past Member (0)
Monday September 17, 2007, 1:04 pm
The push for this war and all it oil is the reason why we are at war!! To use corn or anything else is ludicrous to say the least!!!! So much land would be needed to grow all this fuel, it is an insane idea!!!

So, what on earth is the matter with electric cars????????
The only reason car manufacturers are not making electric cars is because the government has put a clamp on it for years for politically hand holding reason with the Arabs!!!!!!!!!!!!

Everyone in developed countries could/would adapt very nicely if only the federal government would put a stamp of approval on it!!!!!!!!

But they won't and all the while rob car drivers blind!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

~~~PLANT HOPE~~~PLANT SEEDS~~~PLANT LIFE~~~PLANT TREES~~~
 

Ola H. (29)
Monday September 17, 2007, 1:20 pm
THE GREAT BIO-FUEL FRAUD: Running your car on hunger

"Professor David Pimentel of Cornell University and other scientists claim that net energy output from bio-ethanol fuel is less than the fossil-fuel energy used to produce the ethanol. Measuring all energy inputs to produce ethanol, from production of nitrogen fertilizer to energy needed to clean the considerable waste from biofuel refineries, Pimintel's research showed a net energy loss of 22% for biofuel - they use more energy than they produce. That translates into little threat to oil demand and huge profit for clever oil giants that re-profile themselves as "green energy" producers."

"This year the Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued a report concluding that using corn-based ethanol instead of gasoline would have no impact on greenhouse-gas emissions, and would even expand fossil-fuel use because of increased demand for fertilizer and irrigation to expand acreage of ethanol crops. And according to MIT, "natural-gas consumption is 66% of total corn-ethanol production energy", meaning huge new strains on natural-gas supply, pushing prices of that product higher.

The idea that the world can "grow" out of oil dependency with biofuels is the PR hype being used to sell what is shaping up to be the most dangerous threat to the planet's food supply since the creation of patented genetically manipulated corn and other crops."

Biofuel demand makes fried food expensive in Indonesia

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Daniel Barker (35)
Tuesday September 18, 2007, 1:46 pm
We need to look in the mirror and face up to what we are doing. There must be sane, rational solutions. brazil is getting her fuel from sugar cane and the populous aren't starving. Someone got the wrong idea about corn and now Mexicans are starving due to high price of the crop.

We can do as they do in California and live on one kwatt. We can get energy from wind, solar, geothermal, tides and waves. We can buy electric cars. And we can practice family planning and make the biggest change. I have no children and plan on one child and adoption. Growth and development are the biggest killers in the world.
 

Past Member (0)
Tuesday September 18, 2007, 2:00 pm
Daniel.......I agree growth & development along with the insatiable greed will kill us. Man has about disgorged Mother Nature of everything in her belly..........Mother Earth is starving for the coals, the gems, the black dirt, the salts, copper and her trees..............Yes her trees!!!!!!!!!

Man has trampled Mother Earth to death..........Man does not know she is hanging on for dear life. With every storm & hurricane of her tears she is trying to say..........................."Stop the madness, stop reproducing like rats, rabbits and roaches."
And Mother Earth just may drown us all in a fit of shear desperation...................Are we listening?????????

PLANT TREES.......................................
 

Clint Scagliola (91)
Tuesday September 18, 2007, 4:37 pm
You don't need CORN to produce fuel for cars! You can create that using wood chips or any other type of rotting / fermented organic material. Every time I see a story like this I just shake my head in disgust at the idiots that thought it up.
 

TheTimeIsNow Dot Com (127)
Wednesday September 19, 2007, 6:17 am
Hemp is the Plant, but is it currently illegal, what a sad world we currently live,,
 

Past Member (0)
Wednesday September 19, 2007, 6:35 am
Peach.......It is rather.........What a sad and muderous species we are!!!!!!!!!!!

PLANT LIFE
PLANT HOPE
PLANT SEEDS
PLANT TREES
NOT FOR HUMANITY
BUT FOR THE ANIMALS..........
 
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