But it makes me feel good....
The same folks that are pushing for more ethanol production and $4.00 a gallon gas are at it again. The same folks who are spouting the "reality" of man-made global warming are now decrying President Bush's agreement with Brazil for sugar cane based ethanol. Their reason.....rainforest depletion. However, as this IBD column points out, that is not a "reality" either.
"Instead, we hear how sugar production for ethanol is trashing the otherwise forgotten rain forest and now adds to global warming. The United Nations stepped right up with this new warning. Others are blaming ethanol for everything from poverty to floods.
The argument doesn't even get the facts right. For one, Brazil is not growing sugar for ethanol production on rain forest land but in the southern grasslands, making environmentalists' renewed interest in cuddly rain forest creatures irrelevant.
And on the grasslands, ethanol production has barely started. Brazil's entire agricultural production is done on only 8% of the nation's arable land. Clearly there is room to expand.
Environmentalists, however, are trying to sell Brazil as one big rain forest in need of 'saving' instead of a diverse, rapidly industrializing country whose development is critical to conservation."
WAIT A MINUTE!!!!!! What happened to the "concensus" that man made global warming had to be stopped AT ALL COSTS????? What happened to doing something "now"? Well if you look at the Democrats running for President, you would swear that there was an unlimited supply of oil and no need to reduce carbon emissions. Robert F. Kennedy and Al Gore, both very vocal advocates of everyone else cutting back both fly private jets to all of their global warming speaking arrangements! They live in mansions that use more electricity in one day, than my humble abode uses in a year. Yet we peons are supposed to only use compact fluoroscent lights (regardless of the fact that they are considered hazardous waste if broken) and drive hybrids and do without air conditioning and electric appliances....all so some can feel good about "doing something now". People in Mexico are starving because corn prices have shot through the roof - so Democrats (and some squishy Republicans) can feel good about "doing something".
It has never been about the environment...it has always been about dictating a specific lifestyle on everyone else. Which is a hallmark of socialism and that is NOT what a free society is about.
"Instead, we hear how sugar production for ethanol is trashing the otherwise forgotten rain forest and now adds to global warming. The United Nations stepped right up with this new warning. Others are blaming ethanol for everything from poverty to floods.
The argument doesn't even get the facts right. For one, Brazil is not growing sugar for ethanol production on rain forest land but in the southern grasslands, making environmentalists' renewed interest in cuddly rain forest creatures irrelevant.
And on the grasslands, ethanol production has barely started. Brazil's entire agricultural production is done on only 8% of the nation's arable land. Clearly there is room to expand.
Environmentalists, however, are trying to sell Brazil as one big rain forest in need of 'saving' instead of a diverse, rapidly industrializing country whose development is critical to conservation."
WAIT A MINUTE!!!!!! What happened to the "concensus" that man made global warming had to be stopped AT ALL COSTS????? What happened to doing something "now"? Well if you look at the Democrats running for President, you would swear that there was an unlimited supply of oil and no need to reduce carbon emissions. Robert F. Kennedy and Al Gore, both very vocal advocates of everyone else cutting back both fly private jets to all of their global warming speaking arrangements! They live in mansions that use more electricity in one day, than my humble abode uses in a year. Yet we peons are supposed to only use compact fluoroscent lights (regardless of the fact that they are considered hazardous waste if broken) and drive hybrids and do without air conditioning and electric appliances....all so some can feel good about "doing something now". People in Mexico are starving because corn prices have shot through the roof - so Democrats (and some squishy Republicans) can feel good about "doing something".
It has never been about the environment...it has always been about dictating a specific lifestyle on everyone else. Which is a hallmark of socialism and that is NOT what a free society is about.
Labels: Al Gore, Democrats, Ethanol Fraud
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