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Originally Posted by Number 3
The point of E85 or even E100 used by Brasil isn't that it's cheaper. It's that it's renewable and you can make it from corn or even better in the case of Brasil, sugar.
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Yeah, but in countries like Brasil they are torching thousands and thousands of acres of Rainforest to make room to plant sugar cane to make fuel from.
Not only are they exterminating actual species of animals by deforesting their habitats (unlike the barren moonscape that is ANWR), but they are getting rid of the rainforests by BURNING them... (converting them into carbon that goes directly into the atmosphere and making more of those sad looking Polar bears sitting on icebergs, while Algore makes millions from his "green" investments in those countries)
The real kicker comes when you discover that the sugar cane fields only convert a FRACTION of the CO2 in their air into O2 when compared to a rainforest of the same area, so they never reclaim the CO2 that was generated by razing the forests to plant sugar!
Brilliant!
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You are only proving my point. As I posted earlier, Americans aren't hooked on oil, they are hooked on CHEAP oil.
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We're hooked on cheap EVERYTHING.
Guess what... nearly everything we own these days is made from some byproduct of that black stuff that oozes out of the ground. Your clothes, your car, your roads, your house, your phone, your chair, etc. are all made from petroleum based polymers.
I certainly think we have a ways to go before we can make these things from corn and sugar.
"Plant baby plant?"
Nah.
You know the real answer is obvious!