W. is an alternative energy guy and the cost of feeding hogs.

[bushmeister0]

I just caught the last part of his speech. Addressing the issue of energy he says there are folks out there who won't let us drill in ANWAR, becuase they think it's unsafe for the enviornment. He disagrees, naturally, and thinks these naysayers are making us more dependant on foriegn sources for oil i.e. the Arabs. But later he says most of our oil comes from Canada and Mexico, so what's the problem?

On alternative fuels he says he's all for ethonal and says it's great except that it's an extra cost to feed your hogs. Is the added cost of hog feed really a buring issue for most Americans? What planet is this guy on?

CSMONITOR reports:

"'The United States, in a misguided effort to reduce its oil insecurity by converting grain into fuel for cars, is generating global food insecurity on a scale never seen before,' says Lester Brown, president of the Earth Policy Institute (EPI), an environmental think tank in Washington. World population growth will require food for an additional 70 million people this year, the EPI said in a report last week.

Driven mostly by population growth, world grain consumption rose an average of 21 million tons per year from 1990 to 2005, the US Department of Agriculture reported this month. Demand for grain to make ethanol soared by 27 million tons last year, USDA reported.

"'Putting land back into food use would have a profound effect on the price of corn,' says Bruce Babcock, an economist at Iowa State University's Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute. This year, he estimates, the US will produce about 8 billion gallons of ethanol. To do that, nearly one-fifth of the 80 million acres now devoted to corn will go to make ethanol."

http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0128/p03s03-usec.html

BUt what about them hogs?

[Fire Walk With Me]

1. What about them crawford pig farm hogs?

Your post has made me realize that Bush is well aware of peak oil (no relation, sorry) and has started his own alternative energy project, but unfortunately it is a selfish project. He intends to survive the peak oil crash by creating the Bartertown depicted in Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, with himself as Master and Cheney as Blaster. Condi will play the role of Aunty Entity.

I don't want to detract from your OP but this struck me as both amusing and synchronous.