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Kids Build Soybean Fueled Sports Car
Sterling D. Allan writes "High school students from West Philadelphia High School have designed a sports car that can go from zero to 60 in four seconds and get more than 50 miles to the gallon on soy bean oil. CBS News reports that this unlikely car was the star last week at the Philadelphia Auto Show. Once again, are we seeing the fabled instance of revolutionary technology coming not from the big corporations, but from some unlikely garage. Maybe these guys will open source their design."
"I hate to sound like a World Vision commercial, but how the hell can we justify trying to use food as a fuel for our cars when there are millions of people in the world starving?"
Even worse, how can you justify yourself living and eating and drinking water, when millions of people are starving? Cut the pathetic "think of the children" crap, and maybe you can then turly start to make the world a better place.
Jeez.
It's my understanding that Africa is rife with over population, disease, and political instability, especially in the areas where people are starving. How is more food going to do anything but increase the size of a suffering population? (assuming the food makes it to the intended recipients, rather than increasing the wealth and power of the warlord in charge) Then of course, once you've "tampered with their ecosystem" you must continue to send more food to feed their otherwise unsustainable population. Either that or you have starvation that is much worse and on a much larger scale.
Why is it always AFRICA when it comes to whom we need to send food to. When they start using condoms or we spay those people then we can think about feeding them.
"IF YOU CAN'T FEED DON'T BREED!"