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re: True of False? (ISIS thread)

Posted on 4/22/15 at 11:42 am to
Posted by hipgnosis
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Posted on 4/22/15 at 11:42 am to
Alcohol used to be seen as a good fuel source.

But it was easily decentrizesd -- making it impossible to monopolize.

And the first Model T was built with and to run on hemp.

There have always been alternatives, all better than nuclear, but the powers that be pushes us into and have kept us in the current petro paradigm.
Posted by the808bass
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Posted on 4/22/15 at 12:00 pm to
That's too simplistic, even for you.

If we converted every single ear of corn grown in the US to ethanol, it wouldn't supply 1/4th of our domestic energy needs for gasoline (to say nothing of diesel). It would drive up food costs (as we've readily seen since 2006ish. But those are mere details.
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