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A report that came out of England recently destroys the love affair that our tree hugging friends are having with biofuels. Aside from the fact that biofuels require burning some sort of fuel to produce, require fuel to grow, and only supply 75% of the power of gasoline, it seems that biofuels made from corn or rapeseed, like E-85, produce 50% to 70% more greenhouse gasses than fuels made from petroleum oil. Scientists in the U.K, Germany and the United States have found that Ethanol and biodiesel fuels release 50% more nitrous-oxide into the atmosphere than was originally thought.

By the way. It we were to convert entirely to biofuels we would use up every bit of corn produced in the world. What do you think that would do to the food industry?

Why? Because they didn’t anticipate that as much as 5% of the nitrogen that the plant absorbed from the soil is converted in nitrous-oxides and released into the atmosphere when that fuel is burned. So this is just one more case of the kooks going off half cocked over something in spite of the fact that we haven’t done enough to see if it will work.

We need to be careful not to go off half cocked when these kooks start pushing something because, more often than not, they’re wrong. We know now that DDT is perfectly safe when used properly. But millions of people are dead today from malaria that DDT could have prevented. We know now that the spotted owl was never endangered, but we still destroyed the logging industry in that area. We listened to them and stopped thinning out forests and now we’re plagued by giant forest fires every year. We spent billions of dollars eliminating Freon from our air conditioners and aerosols because the kooks said we were destroying the ozone layer. But a report came out last month that said we know now that Freon has no effect at all on the ozone layer. The kooks have been telling us that our seafood has mercury in it and we’re all going to die. Just last week a report came out from the U.S. Government recommending people eat seafood because they have found no danger from mercury. In fact, they said that the mercury danger was HYPOTHETICAL. And let’s not forget the Alar scare that almost destroyed the fruit industry a few years ago even though we now know that Alar is perfectly safe.

The sad part is, our legislators listen to these people. I remember how Congress was badgered into forcing automakers into installing air bags in every car because the kooks insisted that we’d all be safer. The automakers told them that the technology wasn’t ready yet. But the kooks insisted that they were evil corporations and couldn’t be telling the truth. We ended up killing hundreds of young children as a result. The automakers were right after all. The kooks insisted on putting heavier rear bumpers on trucks so that cars wouldn’t run under the truck in a read end collision. The truckers said it wouldn’t work. But they’re evil corporations. What do they know? Turned out the bumpers were so heavy that deaths went up. The bodies were just a little neater.

So pardon me if I get skeptical when the kooks start telling me that I need to start putting alcohol in my car. Alcohol is best used on the rocks with an olive in it.

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