[prophetic]

The only sensible thing to do is figure out how get energy from...KUDZU! It not only grows like mad, you cannot kill it. It rambles over hills, trees, mountains, whatever. Set up a processing plant and the stuff will grow right in the door and into the machinery. No fertilizer or cultivation required.

Now which govt bureaucrat in their right mind(??) would ever want a simple or inexpensive solution to a problem?

Remember that that sub-specie of humans thinks & requires that everything that they work at must be of ever growing complexity and expense. They are conditioned to always
1) make things worse for a simple problem
2) make it as protracted, overly complex and expensive as possible
3) think, speak and process things in enviro-speak so as to sound highly educated and intelligent
4) create and ever growing bureaucracy which will guarantee them an almost permanent career in the overbearing system they have created to solve a simple problem
5) inevitably they become the tool for the liberals and other ultra-leftist who use them to push their radical agendas on the country - common sense or the economy be dammed!!

[snoringbear]

“The only sensible thing to do is figure out how get energy from...KUDZU! It not only grows like mad, you cannot kill it. It rambles over hills, trees, mountains, whatever. Set up a processing plant and the stuff will grow right in the door and into the machinery. No fertilizer or cultivation required.”

Actually a good idea. Let me add another one to yours; how about harvesting the algae out in the gulf known as “dead zones” caused by the ethanol run-off? Supposedly, these zones are huge and supposedly there is already some effort going on to develop algae farms. So, instead of creating farms why not just take advantage of what's already available and waiting. Would help clean up the gulf and reverse some of the damage done by the stupid ethanol program for sure...

[RipSawyer]

I said it is the only SENSIBLE thing to do, naturally that rules out any possibility the government would ever consider it.