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underpants (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-23-08 08:33 AM Original message |
UPDATE! from MSM!! UPDATE!!! |
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slinkerwink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-23-08 08:35 AM Response to Original message |
1. Doesn't almost every population from a state with a large rural population support ethanol? |
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Buzz Clik (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-23-08 08:47 AM Response to Reply #1 |
9. Yes. Every goddam one. |
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zulchzulu (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-23-08 08:37 AM Response to Original message |
2. NYT has a hit piece about it too today |
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cornermouse (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-23-08 08:37 AM Response to Original message |
3. Ethanol is bad. |
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underpants (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-23-08 08:45 AM Response to Reply #3 |
5. No no no |
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jobycom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-23-08 08:40 AM Response to Original message |
4. We have always been at war with Eastasia. |
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underpants (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-23-08 08:46 AM Response to Reply #4 |
7. Yes but someday, God willing, we will get that Goldstein fella |
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harun (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-23-08 09:27 AM Response to Reply #4 |
16. The MSM has warned me that Eastasian's fist bump, and that is how we can |
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Buzz Clik (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-23-08 08:46 AM Response to Original message |
6. Jesus Christ. |
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LTR (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-23-08 09:28 AM Response to Reply #6 |
18. Thank you! |
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cliffordu (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-23-08 10:48 AM Response to Reply #18 |
21. I laugh at people who think we can keep happily motoring with impunity |
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Terran (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-23-08 08:46 AM Response to Original message |
8. Corn-based ethanol really is bad |
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Buzz Clik (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-23-08 08:48 AM Response to Reply #8 |
10. "growing food to turn into fuel for SUV's is fucking insane" -- EXACTLY! |
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high density (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-23-08 09:35 AM Response to Reply #8 |
20. I agree! A huge con on us all |
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crankychatter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-23-08 08:52 AM Response to Original message |
11. NAFTA is bad.... Mexican Farmers going broke... People can't buy a GD Corn Tortilla in Mexico |
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cornermouse (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-23-08 09:09 AM Response to Reply #11 |
12. Ethanol is bad. |
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GihrenZabi (426 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-23-08 09:19 AM Response to Reply #12 |
14. Don't have the links but... |
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cornermouse (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-23-08 09:28 AM Response to Reply #14 |
17. It takes massive amounts of water to make ethanol. |
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Stuckinthebush (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-23-08 11:20 AM Response to Reply #17 |
27. I've always wondered about that. |
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GihrenZabi (426 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-25-08 08:55 AM Response to Reply #27 |
32. That's been getting a lot of press lately... |
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shireen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-23-08 09:17 AM Response to Original message |
13. what? they just figured it out? |
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endarkenment (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-23-08 09:22 AM Response to Original message |
15. Is there any doubt that they just read the daily RNC briefing? |
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zulchzulu (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-23-08 09:33 AM Response to Original message |
19. Does anyone here know the difference between Brazilian ethanol and corn-based ethanol? |
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scheming daemons (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-23-08 10:52 AM Response to Reply #19 |
22. Brazilian ethanol is made from sugar cane. |
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uponit7771 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-23-08 10:57 AM Response to Reply #22 |
24. Which is a lot more efficient than corn |
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uponit7771 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-23-08 10:56 AM Response to Reply #19 |
23. Yeap, if we'd grow it the way Brazil does then use the husk for production we'd have better.... |
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cliffordu (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-23-08 11:08 AM Response to Reply #19 |
25. Well.....You can either lose food crops or rain forest...... |
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Sensitivity (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-23-08 11:37 AM Response to Reply #19 |
29. Brazil uses sugarcane as input to Ethanol extraction. Much less energy required to produce |
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zulchzulu (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-23-08 12:17 PM Response to Reply #19 |
30. The tradeoff to Ethanol from sugar cane is awful pollution from the process |
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scheming daemons (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-23-08 11:13 AM Response to Original message |
26. The problem with ethanol is that we are using 25% of America's corn to make 3% of America's fuel.... |
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Stuckinthebush (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-23-08 11:20 AM Response to Reply #26 |
28. That's bad math |
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anonymous171 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-23-08 12:19 PM Response to Original message |
31. I've been saying ethanol was a bad idea since 2006. Unfortunately, I am not important. |
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