Wow. Looks like they are desperate in Michigan
To: theruleshavechanged
They need to cue up “The Rutabaga Boogie”.
2 posted on
08/19/2009 12:41:58 PM PDT by
BenLurkin
To: theruleshavechanged
They might be on to something here - rutabagas have always given me gas.....
3 posted on
08/19/2009 12:44:19 PM PDT by
Uncle Ike
(Rope is cheap, and there are lots of trees...)
To: theruleshavechanged
Rutabagas? Why rutabagas? Can’t you squeeze oil out of a turnip?
4 posted on
08/19/2009 12:45:16 PM PDT by
Mamzelle
(bring your cameras to all political gatherings--video if you can)
To: theruleshavechanged
The rutabaga hasn't had much presence on U.S. dinner tables... It did at my parent's house when I was growing up.
Plus, a pasty is not a pasty without rutabagas.
7 posted on
08/19/2009 12:49:40 PM PDT by
Recovering Hermit
(I shot the rooster, the one that used'er, wake me up at four A.M....)
To: theruleshavechanged
I thought that Hooterville had a corner on the US rutabega market?
To: theruleshavechanged
The truth is we really dont need to waste fuel growing fuel . There is plenty in the ground in America, all we have to do is drill.
13 posted on
08/19/2009 1:17:41 PM PDT by
Venturer
To: theruleshavechanged
I have one word for biofuel. Kudzu.
To: theruleshavechanged
The good guys at NC State had NC farmers to replace the unneeded tobacco crops that had supported generations with cotton. There are thousands of acres now.
Perhaps the Michigan farmers should grow cotton. The market is very good.
15 posted on
08/19/2009 1:20:35 PM PDT by
bert
(K.E. N.P. +12 . fasl el-khitab)
To: theruleshavechanged
Oh, no, I love rutabaga. Now it will be overpriced.
16 posted on
08/19/2009 1:22:14 PM PDT by
Bigg Red
(Palin/Hunter 2012)
To: theruleshavechanged
What about arugula? I’d think that’d make some high octane stoff. And Bambi’d love it.
To: theruleshavechanged
A year or so ago I did a back of the envelope calculation that took the entire combined annual output of palm oil from Malaysia and Indonesia and converted them to an equivalent fuel value of gasoline. The bottom line was that the above quantities of oil would provide US domestic motor vehicle needs for very nearly three weeks. Now consider that those countries cultivate palm oil using forestwide slash-and-burn techniques like it's going out of style with virtually no environmental concerns, have a 365 days/year growing season, and virtually unlimited amounts of rainfall, it illustrates what a pipe dream replacing petroleum with midwest switch grass or fermented corn silage biofuels is. Just ain't gonna happen.
22 posted on
08/19/2009 1:58:16 PM PDT by
SpaceBar
To: theruleshavechanged
But what happens if these genetically modified rutabagas take over the world?
23 posted on
08/19/2009 2:08:59 PM PDT by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius)
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Next up, jicama acreage can be converted into something useful.
24 posted on
08/19/2009 3:56:39 PM PDT by
SunkenCiv
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26 posted on
08/20/2009 9:24:27 AM PDT by
grellis
(I am Jill's overwhelming sense of disgust.)
To: theruleshavechanged
IOW, it’s like upping the production of sugar beets....
27 posted on
08/20/2009 9:25:42 AM PDT by
r9etb
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