“a form of perversion to pass over, literally, the oil resources in the ground”
If we’re talking perversion, how about letting US resources sit idle, drilling a big hole in the ground, pouring in product from the suadies & calling it a “strategic reserve”
Sure we need to drill here drill now. I am 100 percent for that.
At the same time bio technology takes any bio based carbon containing material on earth and makes it into useful products. This includes garbage, sewage, animal manures, storm damage, construction and demolition debris, road kill, nutrient rich run off from farm fields and any crops that can be grown in field or ocean.
You mention not using food based crops to make fuel. If we stopped making fuel from corn, we would have to cut back drastically on corn production, which would throw many thousands of people out of work. At least 10 million farm acres would have to be retired from corn production, at a cost of billions of dollars in federal subsidies to farmers to not grow corn on their land.
The Iowa bio processing Center near me, tips a semi load of corn every two and a half minutes, makes around 30 separate products, including various foods and fuels, and employs well over 2,000 people at good paying technical jobs.