This is truly a landmark breakthrough! Now we can start using up all of those nasty Poplar Trees and Switchgrasses etc. along with our food supplies to keep us from using oil! Soon we could have those desirable effects that we have all been longing for like famine and deforestation! I'm truly impressed.
Question: Perhaps I am missing something, but, Why not just use the oil supplies available to us? I hear we have enough to last 100 to 200 years.
Oh, never mind. I thought about it for a while and realized that there might be some evil oil companies that might make some money by supplying us with that nasty oil.
Yup, I guess the famine option would be a much better result to live with.
Green rules.
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Yes, we have lots of oil just off the coast of Florida, and the exploration, production and refining could provide the jobs the liberals down here are whining about not having. Hey, the Chinese are drilling 45 miles south of Key West and nitwits like Senator Bill Nelson (D) are adamant that they don’t want US oil companies to drill closer than 200 miles to shore. Go figure.
“Yup, I guess the famine option would be a much better result to live with.”
Greens oppose anything that makes us energy independent or feeds people.
Stems, I think, from the Paul Ehrlichs outlook that lots of us must die if the world is to survive.
Against engineered crops, against drilled oil, against DDT, against individual choice in medicine, for “choice” for abortion, against big agriculture (which works) and for small farms with no pesticides (when it works it works but leads to regional famines now and then).