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Strange Bedfellows Fight Ethanol Subsidies

Posted by kdawson on from the no-way-to-energy-self-sufficiency dept.

Reader Actual Reality sends us to Business Week for a tale of the strangest political coalition to be seen in a while — greens, hippies, libertarians, and livestock producers uniting to get ethanol subsidies reduced or killed. The demand for the alternative fuel is driving up corn prices and having big impacts on other parts of the economy. Not many other issues are capable of getting left-leaning economist Paul Krugman and the Cato Institute on the same side.

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  1. Re:Carbon + Oxygen by Technician · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Yes coal can be burned more cleanly and the CO2 sequestered

    Remember that in the process of storing away a unit of carbon an element, you also store away two units of oxygen another element. Since we are a carbon based life form dependant on oxygen, is oxidizing our carbon by combining it with oxygen and storing it away a good idea simply because we think a little CO2 leads to run away global warming? In the process of capturing and sequestering the CO2 you use even more of the carbon and oxygen.

    Face the facts..
    A bicycle on the beach leaves 2 tire tracks that tend to wander together just like temprature and CO2 levels track on earth. Careful analysis of both can show which track leads the other. The fact they track together is not proof the behind one leads the front one. CO2 and Temprature track closely like bycicle tire prints on the beach. Often ignored is Temprature leads CO2 levels, not follow it. We are trying to steer temprature by pushing the effect instead of the cause. For the cause look to the sky. Now track the histroy of the Mars Polar Ice cap. Can't blame their global warming on burning fossil fuels on Mars.

    I'm sorry to break the news, but the Inconvienent Truth missed a few facts.
    The Great Global Warming Swindle http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XttV2C6B8pU
    Mars Polar Ice Caps http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn1660

    Do your research instead of follwing the latest pollitical stance on the subject.

    I do presume the truth is inconvienent for Al Gore.
    I don't believe burying our Oxygen is a good idea.

    --
    The truth shall set you free!
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  3. First pOst by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  4. fuCk? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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