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British scientists develop CO2 to natural gas process {Autoblog Green}
May 10th 2008 1:41AM Wow, this sounds disgustingly similar to H2Car.
http://greyfalcon.net/h2car
Wheat being touted in western Canada for ethanol {Autoblog Green}
May 6th 2008 6:33PM ==1) waste products that are not already recycled into animal feed or other commercial products like mulch, fiberboard, fertilizer etc.==
Except thats not "waste".
http://greyfalcon.net/peaksoil
And what little "real" waste there is, is inconsequential. Less than inflating our tires better.
==2) low maintenance, non food PERENNIAL plant species that do NOT require replanting, fertilizing, irrigation or pesticides such as switchgrass.==
Bull.
http://www.stopbp-berkeley.org/CellulosicBiofuels.pdf
==3) high yield plant species like algae that can be cheaply produced on land that is not otherwise useful for growing food crops.==
Also Bull.
http://algae-thermodynamics.blogspot.com/2007/03/how-can-one-not-like-greenfuel.html
greyfalcon.net/algae5
Wheat being touted in western Canada for ethanol {Autoblog Green}
May 6th 2008 8:18AM They should pass a law prohibiting plants as fuel.
Considering plants all use the same primary resources.
Topsoil, Water, Phosphorous, Nitrogen, Potassium
If all the farmland in the US, and all the fertlizers got displaced to make food. Do you honestly think that would have no impact on food?
Besides which, plants are amazingly inefficient at capturing sunlight into energy.
http://www.sandia.gov/news/resources/releases/2008/solargrid.html
http://greyfalcon.net/sugarsolar
Gas tax debate continues unabated, Hillary tries to defend herself {Autoblog Green}
May 5th 2008 8:06PM ==I support policy structures that move the country in a direction I support, accounting for economic externalities like pollution etc., but this not one of those cases.==
Gee, then what would be a good idea?
Removing income taxes from low wage earners, and moving in carbon pricing?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MPWVJhD5Vo
Now which candidate is more likely to do something like that? Barack Obama.
greyfalcon.net/incometax.pdf
youtube.com/watch?v=XpYHYyJ4cOY
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Oh yeah, and as for Gas Prices. One of the biggest consumers of gasoline? The US Military.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/04/02/military-feels-fuelcost-g_n_94765.html
And last I checked, Hillary voted to get us into Iraq. Today said she would Nuke Iran.
And she gets more money from Military lobbyists than McCain and Obama combined.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2007/10/17/defense-industry-embraces_n_68927.html
factcheck.barackobama.com/factcheck/2008/03/17/response_to_clinton_attacks_on.php
Gas tax debate continues unabated, Hillary tries to defend herself {Autoblog Green}
May 5th 2008 7:50PM ==What's Obama's short term plan to help people?==
Easy. You earn less than $50,000 a year?
Then you don't have to pay income taxes on your paychecks.
(About $1000 per recipient per year.)
http://greyfalcon.net/incometax.pdf
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpYHYyJ4cOY
Additionally, Iraq+Afghanistan, thats costing us $3 billion dollars a WEEK.
That comes straight out of income taxes.
(About $12000 per US Citizen per year.)
So Obama's short term plan is to cut spending and cut taxes.
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And before you start b*tching about "OMG SAFTEY"
We spend 29x more on Defense than the next nation behind us.
And according to every Intelligence Agency and the Government Accountability Office, our presence in the middle east is irrefutably making Americans "less safe".
http://greyfalcon.net/ciareport
greyfalcon.net/gaoreport
Gas tax debate continues unabated, Hillary tries to defend herself {Autoblog Green}
May 5th 2008 7:18PM Yeap,
Hillary for some reason thinks that just because every economist happens to disagree with her, they must all be "elitist" snobs who hate America.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/05/04/clinton-gas-tax-holiday-h_n_100025.html
At best her plan would be save $30 bucks over the whole summer. The price of two movie tickets. Woop-de-do.
More likely, Exxon could just as easily raise the price of gasoline 18.5 cents, and it would be like nothing had happened. Except that we wouldn't have any money to pay for maintaining our roads, and Exxon would have more money in the bank.
Kind of Bizarre how the black guy who grew up with a single mother, who had to go on food stamps, and only got into college off of scholarships and loans, is somehow the "Elitist".
online.wsj.com/public/article/SB120830244553617733-vleQbq1_IInjHSe4kG3qaJPngFw_20080515.html?mod=tff_main_tff_top
Meanwhile the lady who was raised in the lap of luxury, earned $109 million dollars last year, cheerleadered NAFTA, and worked in the for the union-hating corporate ranks of WalMart, is somehow an advocate of the "Working Class"?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuZhwV24PmM
It's insane!
Then again, we've heard this kind of backwards black and white logic before...
“Clinton: Do they stand with hard pressed Americans who are trying to pay their gas bills at the gas station or do they once again stand with the big oil companies? ((Terrorists?)) That’s a vote I’m going to try to get, because I want to know where they stand and I want them to tell us - Are They With Us or Against Us?” ((WTF!))
thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/05/02/clinton-presses-on-gas-tax-holiday/index.html?hp
Hillary's bizarre rhetoric has nothing to do with reality. And it scares me when people blindly accept her arguments without even attempting to find out if they are true or not.
Support for biofuel subsidies collapsing in Canadian parliament {Autoblog Green}
May 4th 2008 12:19PM Yeah, US Dollar isn't quite that bad.
But it isn't quite that good either.
http://greyfalcon.net/canadadollar.png
It's the Governator vs. Bush on global warming rules {Autoblog Green}
Apr 27th 2008 4:42PM Yeap
"The latest assault on states' rights came in the fine print of a proposal this week by NHSTA to put into place tougher CAFE standards required by last year's energy act. On page 387 of that proposal, NHSTA slipped in the killer language:
"Any state regulation regulating tailpipe carbon dioxide emissions from automobiles is expressly pre-empted."
http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2008/4/25/9573/08944
In short, Federal law would completely override states law in regulating automobile greenhouse emissions if this were passed.
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Clearly California, and 11 other states aren't too happy about it.
http://www.greencarcongress.com/2008/04/governors-prote.html
VC firms bet on Th!nk {Autoblog Green}
Apr 21st 2008 8:02PM Think City in 2009
Think Ox in 2011
http://www.greencarcongress.com/2008/04/think-partners.html
http://www.think.no/think/Models-Concepts
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Good to see a more practical EV coming to the US.
Another day, another opinion: Ethanol keeping oil prices down {Autoblog Green}
Apr 21st 2008 7:38PM The US Government Accountability Office says otherwise.
Pretty much that the Flexfuel CAFE loophole accounts for more than 9 billion gallons of increased petroleum usage from ethanol.
http://www.autobloggreen.com/2007/06/12/gao-says-doe-lacks-biofuels-strategic-approach/
greyfalcon.net/etoh2.png
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And even if it were true, it's not like we aren't paying for it.
http://greyfalcon.net/truecostofethanol.png
http://greyfalcon.net/biotaxes2.png
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