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Scientists find bugs that eat waste and excrete petrol
Times on line ^ | June 14, 2008 | Chris Ayres

Posted on 06/16/2008 3:48:27 PM PDT by Born In America

“Ten years ago I could never have imagined I’d be doing this,” says Greg Pal, 33, a former software executive, as he squints into the late afternoon Californian sun. “I mean, this is essentially agriculture, right? But the people I talk to – especially the ones coming out of business school – this is the one hot area everyone wants to get into.”

He means bugs. To be more precise: the genetic alteration of bugs – very, very small ones – so that when they feed on agricultural waste such as woodchips or wheat straw, they do something extraordinary. They excrete crude oil.

(Excerpt) Read more at timesonline.co.uk ...


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Leave it to a democrat to put a stop to this by listing insects as endangered species....
1 posted on 06/16/2008 3:48:27 PM PDT by Born In America
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To: Born In America

That’s nothing.... I have a friend that drinks beer and in no time can produce enough methane to cause a room to clear.


2 posted on 06/16/2008 3:50:44 PM PDT by Dutch Boy
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To: Born In America

Don’t give them any ideas!


3 posted on 06/16/2008 3:50:52 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (McCain could never convince me to vote for him. Only the Marxist Obama can!)
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To: Born In America

Sounds like a joke...


4 posted on 06/16/2008 3:53:00 PM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
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To: Born In America

Exactly what I was thinking. Sit back and watch the RATS do everything and anything they can to stifle this since their goal - which they no longer even really bother to hide - is to destroy America.


5 posted on 06/16/2008 3:54:42 PM PDT by Pravious
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To: Born In America
If this is possible, I'm not sure how they intend to harvest the litte bugs' sh!t. Or if they could possible harvest suitable quantities of sh!t.

(Too bad they can't modify congress critters this way...)

6 posted on 06/16/2008 3:56:39 PM PDT by the anti-liberal (Write in: Fred Thompson)
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To: Born In America

Thanks for posting. Interesting.


7 posted on 06/16/2008 3:56:48 PM PDT by Normandy
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To: Born In America

Still produces carbon based fuels so subject to McCain’s Cap and Trade.


8 posted on 06/16/2008 4:07:25 PM PDT by Sunnyflorida (McCain Swiftboated the Swift Boat Vets for Truth)
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To: Born In America

I wonder what would happen if you unleashed this bugs on a landfill...


9 posted on 06/16/2008 4:09:47 PM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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"Cap and Trade"

Is that disaster really McCain? I did not know that - though it surprises me none.

10 posted on 06/16/2008 4:10:41 PM PDT by the anti-liberal (Write in: Fred Thompson)
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To: Born In America

Hey - I know someone that eats and excretes natural gas!


11 posted on 06/16/2008 4:14:24 PM PDT by spanalot
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To: the anti-liberal

Cap and Trade is the McCain-Lieberman Act!!!!


12 posted on 06/16/2008 4:21:45 PM PDT by Sunnyflorida (McCain Swiftboated the Swift Boat Vets for Truth)
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To: the anti-liberal

http://www.pewclimate.org/policy_center/analyses/s_1151_summary.cfm


13 posted on 06/16/2008 4:22:37 PM PDT by Sunnyflorida (McCain Swiftboated the Swift Boat Vets for Truth)
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To: Sunnyflorida
Ugh. And I thought my biggest beef with him was having Juan Hernandez on his staff.

Good grief.

Is this some kind of race to see who can come up with the worst economic policy?

Maybe they'll duke this out at their townhall meeting at La Raza... ?

14 posted on 06/16/2008 4:37:46 PM PDT by the anti-liberal (Write in: Fred Thompson)
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Renewable Petroleum: Microbes Eat Waste and Excrete Crude Oil
DBKP | June 15, 2008 | Mondoreb
Posted on 06/15/2008 6:34:27 PM PDT by mondoreb
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2031618/posts


15 posted on 06/16/2008 6:26:37 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_________________________Profile updated Friday, May 30, 2008)
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To: Born In America

I eat garbage and excrete methane.


16 posted on 06/17/2008 12:39:04 AM PDT by ccmay (Too much Law; not enough Order.)
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