It would be much safer too.Kreutz wrote:Pardon my commonsense environmentalism, but wouldn't the pipeline (once completed) have vastly fewer emissions than transporting the oil via rail, truck, or barge?
Fair enough....my memory is a bit fuzzy there.MarcSpaz wrote:Gas was under $2 a gal when an Oil Man was in the White House. Just sayin'.
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Somebody's got to subsidize all that corn we're putting in it...dusterdude wrote:Still trying to figure out why gas is damn near 3.50 a gallon since we have so much gas these days
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/ ... 1-04-02-59Palladin wrote:Somebody's got to subsidize all that corn we're putting in it...dusterdude wrote:Still trying to figure out why gas is damn near 3.50 a gallon since we have so much gas these days
snipWASHINGTON (AP) -- Biofuels made from the leftovers of harvested corn plants are worse than gasoline for global warming in the short term, a study shows, challenging the Obama administration's conclusions that they are a much cleaner oil alternative and will help combat climate change.
A $500,000 study paid for by the federal government and released Sunday in the peer-reviewed journal Nature Climate Change concludes that biofuels made with corn residue release 7 percent more greenhouse gases in the early years compared with conventional gasoline.
Ethanol mandates+ethanol subsidies=some pretty damned brazen crony capitalism.The biofuel industry and administration officials immediately criticized the research as flawed. They said it was too simplistic in its analysis of carbon loss from soil, which can vary over a single field, and vastly overestimated how much residue farmers actually would remove once the market gets underway.
Mexican food!dusterdude wrote:Still trying to figure out why gas is damn near 3.50 a gallon since we have so much gas these days
Well, how do you think they refine/distill that corn residue? WITH COAL-FIRED REFINERIES!WASHINGTON (AP) -- Biofuels made from the leftovers of harvested corn plants are worse than gasoline for global warming in the short term, a study shows, challenging the Obama administration's conclusions that they are a much cleaner oil alternative and will help combat climate change.
A $500,000 study paid for by the federal government and released Sunday in the peer-reviewed journal Nature Climate Change concludes that biofuels made with corn residue release 7 percent more greenhouse gases in the early years compared with conventional gasoline.
