Humble Duty
It is with great pleasure and esteem that I dutifully record missives, perhaps epistles, and certainly the occasional fanatical communique regarding issues of local and national import. Thusly, I was compelled to record the massive biofuels related post, which was the last item of written substance to scorch the keyboard of this lonely Dell laptop of busted screen.
Well, since I compiled all that research and thought into one "succinct" message about the biofuel revolution, it seems as though I have been acutely aware of a general tidal wave of continuous news regarding the subject. It seems as though I am not the only one who is keeping a sharp eye and jittery leg to the grindstone of internet news thumpa.
For example:
The bloggers at Ethicurean put together a little article that shows how the soft drink, meat, and grocery food companies are fighting the latest senate energy bill that would mandate the use of 36 billion gallons of ethanol biofuels by 2022. A 15-year pipeline to potentially prohibitively expensive corn prices, thereby making the precious corn sweetener expensive, and thusly making soda expensive. Particularly interesting are the arguments against the biofuel boom used by this coalition--the big-biz corn-lovers club--which point out that this proposed mandated increase could lead to soil erosion, degraded water quality, and habitat destruction. Well done men of power - you have now gotten around to pointing out the negative environmental effects that are intrinsically related to your underlying modus operandi. Who better to predict the ecological disasters that could potentially result from a biofuels boom than big food, big meat, and big soda?
The United Nations Environmental Programme released a report entitled Global Trends in Sustainable Energy Investment 2007. While most of the report provides details about the types of markets that are integral players in the recent sustainable energy boom, i.e. venture capital, private investment, so forth, there are some fancy facts about how large the biofuels industry is. Globally, the biofuels monster machine is a bloated runner-up to wind, the world powerhouse in sustainable energy investment. Hoorah for the breeze, and biofuels may get there since the Senate gave a push. The oft quoted figure is 36 billion gallons by the not so far off date of 2022. The Senate also said, despite the predictable push-back by "Big Auto", that by 2020 the average fuel economy of cars and light trucks would have to increase to 35 miles per gallon. This is all but a re-hash of regularly available information. Feel free to investigate on your own as you see fit. Keep a close eye to the Bush admin response, and feel free to track at Opencongress.org, responsibility for blog content attributable to Donny Shaw of Fat Worm of Error. Fancy fucking that spongepants. I am fond of opencongress's format and complexity, as it sates innate desires by political junkies to know everything EVERYTHING possible.
Well, since I compiled all that research and thought into one "succinct" message about the biofuel revolution, it seems as though I have been acutely aware of a general tidal wave of continuous news regarding the subject. It seems as though I am not the only one who is keeping a sharp eye and jittery leg to the grindstone of internet news thumpa.
For example:
The bloggers at Ethicurean put together a little article that shows how the soft drink, meat, and grocery food companies are fighting the latest senate energy bill that would mandate the use of 36 billion gallons of ethanol biofuels by 2022. A 15-year pipeline to potentially prohibitively expensive corn prices, thereby making the precious corn sweetener expensive, and thusly making soda expensive. Particularly interesting are the arguments against the biofuel boom used by this coalition--the big-biz corn-lovers club--which point out that this proposed mandated increase could lead to soil erosion, degraded water quality, and habitat destruction. Well done men of power - you have now gotten around to pointing out the negative environmental effects that are intrinsically related to your underlying modus operandi. Who better to predict the ecological disasters that could potentially result from a biofuels boom than big food, big meat, and big soda?
The United Nations Environmental Programme released a report entitled Global Trends in Sustainable Energy Investment 2007. While most of the report provides details about the types of markets that are integral players in the recent sustainable energy boom, i.e. venture capital, private investment, so forth, there are some fancy facts about how large the biofuels industry is. Globally, the biofuels monster machine is a bloated runner-up to wind, the world powerhouse in sustainable energy investment. Hoorah for the breeze, and biofuels may get there since the Senate gave a push. The oft quoted figure is 36 billion gallons by the not so far off date of 2022. The Senate also said, despite the predictable push-back by "Big Auto", that by 2020 the average fuel economy of cars and light trucks would have to increase to 35 miles per gallon. This is all but a re-hash of regularly available information. Feel free to investigate on your own as you see fit. Keep a close eye to the Bush admin response, and feel free to track at Opencongress.org, responsibility for blog content attributable to Donny Shaw of Fat Worm of Error. Fancy fucking that spongepants. I am fond of opencongress's format and complexity, as it sates innate desires by political junkies to know everything EVERYTHING possible.
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