Bio Fuel, Global Warming, High Prices on Gas and Food.
Everyone today is talking about the price of GAS and the increase price of Food.Its not surprising to anyone that the price increase of either. Gas due to OPEC not increasing the number of barrels in order to keep the price high. This was in response to Bush's stated and very public move to get people off their dependence of imported OIL.
Bush about 2 years ago abruptly changed his stance on Oil and started pushing towards using Bio Fuel. He traveled the country in a very public push to get people to think Bio Fuel, especially corn or soy based ethanol. In order to push this ..finger in the face of the Arabs he subsidized corn based bio fuel to make is cheep for the US to export it Europe! Now the EU producers cant really compete with the price they get from US Corn Based Ethanol.
So what did this very political move do.
- Got OPEC to stick to their guns and not produce, drill more barrels a day (which they could and bring the price down)
- Now many farmers in the US are growing Corn and Soy for Bio Fuel. They make higher profits.
- With the not shortage of Corn and Soy and the squeeze of crude oil.. now both food and Gas are rising, and rising fast.
The actual coast of creating bio fuel is not a cost savings, and does not help the enviroment. Actually it takes more enegery to create a gallon of bio fuel than 1 gallon of enegey it creates.
Ever feel like a pawn in Bushs badly played chess game ?
Onto Global Warming.. now called Climate change (Thanks to some very smart PR Firms)
The theory is pretty simple and we can all pretty much repeat it without thinking by now. Everybody knows.. That humans use carbon based fuel, which leaves in our atmosphere the deadly gas CO2 .. The more CO2 in our atmosphere the earth begins to develop a greeenhouse effect and keep all our plants warmth stuck, and thus there is going to be in the very near future melting of glaciers, rising sea levels ... change in the gulf stream flows and so on.. Everyon has seen the video an inconvenient truth.
But in the past few years there has been a groundswell of scientists who not only question the finding of Al Gore Inc. The body of evidence is just not there to support the Global Warming Myth..
I urge you to view this video.
http://www.discovery.org/v/30
While it was not produced by hollywood and has none of the flash that Al Gore had.. its basis is in facts.. Facts which dispute the theory in a very convincing way.
The document and sources can be downloaded here.
http://www.oism.org/pproject/
This peer reviewed document now has 19,000 Scientists who agree with the premise and have signed the document in protest of the public push of this misinformation.
Why would anyone want to push misinformation about the climate is pretty simple.. If GAS were thought of as bad for the planet.. and killing us all. no major country would fund third world countries use of Coal to burn it... They say things like alternate source of energy is what is needed.. like.. Ethanol (ya right) or Wind.. or geo thermal.. but what comes into the mind.. is Nuclear .. yes Nukes somehow sound not nearly as bad as burning coal which kills the planet !!
Nukes are clean.. if we can only find someplace to get ride of the waste.
I hope my readers don't expect me to find a solution to these political / economic issues, I just honestly hope that you don't ever accept what is being pushed on you by our media or government. Their motives and goals are often times at odds to yours and mine. We the people really don't have news media which does their job. All too often our news media just read press releases given to them by corp or governments and our news media, because who funds them really can't question what they are saying. We have in our own population become happy ignorant slobs, but feel that our free speech rights are being upheld, and by reading or watching the nightly news we are being informed. While in truth we are being force fed mis-information disguised as news. Another blog, another day will give clear examples of that process, and until that day I remain.
Bob Lee..
Comments always welcome
posted by Bob Lee @ 7:09 PM
2 Comments:
The Bush-blinders are on again. Yes, let's blame Bush alone for high gas prices instead of the oil cartel members themselves or the Democrats in Congress who have blocked oil-drillng in Alaska. Yes, let's shall.
The real lesson here is that statist solutions to environmental concerns, espcially based upon incomplete scientific evaluation and lack of planning, are not going to be cost-effective and may cause more harm than good to the enviroment as in: "Hey, let's mandate MTBE and make everyone use it instead of Ethanol--oops poisoned the groundwater, better try something else.
It should also be remembered that when GOP politicians join with the voices of Left, junk policy happens. Our current leading witness to this is the McCain-Feingold disaster polluting our political campaigns and mocking the First Amendment. For this, both Prez George and Candidate John are to blame (maybe they should stop listening to Paul and Ringo).
Larry is correct on this one ... we cant just "blame bush" even though he's the easy target (for people who hate him)
- Hillary endorses a bill 5x bigger then Bush's
http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/election2008/2007-12-16-ethanol-2008candidates_N.htm
"In voting for the energy bill, Clinton endorsed an ethanol mandate that exceeded by nearly fivefold one she once opposed. Now, in addition to supporting the legislation, she proposes spending $2 billion on biofuels development."
And Obama says he wants even more
"Obama, who has pushed ethanol issues since his election to the Senate in 2004, said he'll not only ensure a new mandate is met, he promises it will be surpassed. He's proposing a $150 billion fund to finance new biorefineries and says he wants to require all new cars to run on E85, a mix of 85% ethanol and 15% gasoline."
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