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Here's one for you Julian,
Driving a crappy old Volvo doesn't absolve anybody from their guilt in contributing to the pollution on this planet. Using vegetable oils doens't either. North America consumes 10 million barrels of oil A DAY. All the little people like you will not make a dent in that.
Lots of big wars have been started for stupid reasons. Like the First WW. Some little mental case shoots a prince who nobody heard of and 20 million are dead in four years. Bad reason. Oil is a good reason. I did not advocate war, only that some reasons for it are better than others.
You live in the US with the rest of us? Then you know money does make the world go round. Most equitable system yet devised. The commies, who you obviously like, failed. Only the Chinese persist, and not for long. The idea that money is neither evil nor good hasn't occurred to some folks yet.
So here's what happens when you use ethanol for a fuel. YOu use arable land to grow corn - using petrochemical fertilizers and big diesel machines. You convert it to ethanol and distribute it, using more machines. While you grow food into fuel, inedible petroleum sits underground, while thousands starve to death every day. If you advocate that, you are seriously in need of help.
I said nothing about finding other energy sources as being unethical. I said growing food for fuel is unethical. Wind, solar, tide, hydro, all those sources are great and I hope to see more.
Stop insinuating things I didn't say.
Oh, and another stupid war - The one in Vietnam. Remember that one, or were you too young, and therefore you don't feel responsible? Some womanizing democratic president got us into that one. Disgusting decade all round. Stupid reason. George W. has a better reason than that one. Let me know when we get to 55,000 US deaths, and 1.2 million Iraqi deaths. Then George will have done what Kennedy did. At last count, he's a bit short of the mark. And those stats you can take to the bank.
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