We think: Congress should lift the tariff on ethanol from Brazil

Albi wrote:

But... what about the sugar? This'll drive up the price of cocoa puffs by 300 percent.

Greg Olsen wrote:

Do you like breathing? I do. I'd say I couldn't live without it. Here's what happens when you lift the tariff on Ethanol from Brazil:
Wealthy Brazilians see an opportunity to supply billions of gallons to oil-thirsty America-> They hack down the rain forest at an even greater rate than they are already. Yeah! We get a few cents off the price of gas, but the whole planet loses our largest air filter. Brilliant! Another great idea.

Albi wrote:

But... what about the sugar? This'll drive up the price of cocoa puffs by 300 percent.

Gloom and Doom wrote:

You bet. Let the fools in Brazil use their food to produce ethanol. Quit using our corn and other food grains to produce this crap. Only fools would burn their food.

Liberty Wanted wrote:

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That is probablyt he right solution. If you have to burn food, maybe not a good idea.
I think we should plaster the country with windmills, solar panels, and nuclear power plants to reduce the need for fossil fuels to generate power for anything but motor vehicles.
From there we continue to work towards hybrids, hydrogen, etc cars and as that comes in we soon find ourselves using 0 fossil fuels.

too droll to troll wrote:

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Tell me. Do you get solar after hours, or is that the glow from you panama red?

Liberty Wanted wrote:

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What did I say that was that out there?
Im for developing energy sources that are not limited versus ones that no matter what, will eventually run out. Eventually we will have to learn to survive without fossil fuels. We will have to use them in the midterm but the human population is exploding. We are only going to need more and more energy and burn through our fossil fuels more and more quickly.
As that runs out, prices will go up. At some point (I think soon) our economies will not function because the price of fuel will be too high to support using it. At that points who knows what will happen, my guess would be wars.
Regaurdless of what happens, I would like to focus on developing unlimited sources of energy. The only ones I know of are nuclear, solar, wind, bio. Bio dosent seem smart because it is food. If there are two things we need to support life its food and energy.

too droll to troll wrote:

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The only part of the US population that is burgeoning is that of Hispanics and their anchor babies. That is plain fact.
As to bio that isn't food like the **** corn gig. Look at hemp! Fixes Co2, doesn't need all the chems to grow, renews itself (when it isn't being snuffed by DEA), can provide omega fatty acids, fiber for clothes, and fiber for paper, and........medicine. Want to have pet birds? Give them hemp seed. Want to catch the biggest fish? Throw some hemp seed in the water when you cast your line.
5000 years of civilation weren't wrong regarding hemp. It's only in the 20th and 21st century that we find that the powers that be are too stupid to realize something that has been around for millenia.

Chris wrote:

<quoted text>Have you ever seen your car...on weed??
Too bad it doesn't make a good fuel. Fine for those other things however.

too droll to troll wrote:

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Orlando is where Disneyworld is, correct?
Hemp can work as an alt fuel. In the meantime, continue to blow soap bubbles before you get to the magic kingdom ride.