where progressives network
Chevron's big lie about Biofuels
I am writing to a comment that "biofuels" are bad, unsustainable etc:
WVO is "Waste Vegitable Oil". It is just that, waste, used material. WVO fuels and Biodiesel refined from WVO is a bonus that we can extract from the refuse of America's love of fried foods.
You seem to have bought into the propaganda campaign funded by BP and Chevron that "Biofuels are unsustainable" or that they take food out of the eating cycle. That's hogwash. The overwhelming force of the heavily Taxpayer-subsidized corn and Soy industries derailed most attempts to implement other sustainable sources for Ethanol or Biodiesel such as Switch Grass (a wild weed that produces many many times more gallons of fuel per acre than Soy or Corn), Tallow (another super-productive plant), Beet sugar, Waste cooking oils and many others.
They have attempted to create a perception that using Foodstocks or waste oils for fueling transportation somehow takes food off the market and increases pressure on third world peoples.
The truth is that the Corn and Soy producers have attempted to utilize their products for everything but food, in products such as plastic- or cardboard-like packaging, lubricants, food sweeteners or other additives, Pharma drugs, beer, car tires and even spark plugs. (Corn is now a 'cheap' feed for Cows, that are not equipped by nature to digest it and thus must be fed a steady diet of anti-biotics to cope with the effects of a corn diet. Who eats the meat grown on Corn and antibiotics? You and your family do.)
Giant Agribusiness has massively over-produced Corn and Soy to the exclusion of a variety of core crops, and now need more ways to market it (aside from the dumping of our surplus on foreign markets, suffocating their production abroad and forcing 1.5 million Mexican Corn Farmers out of a livelihood- just one commonly cited example).
So the concocted story Corn and Soy being taken from the mouths of babes to feed our transportation needs is a ruse. The Petroleum Giants such as Chevron are also manufacturers of oil-based fertilizers and pesticides by the way. When they claim that we need to keep plants out of the gas tank, they are simply promoting the status quo and further consumption of a finite, dwindling resource, oil. The less oil available, the higher the price. Simple math.
So telling people that putting used cooking oil in their "gas tank" is bad for the starving kiddies in Africa is just another tactic to keep consumption up and the flow of oil profits at record levels as long as possible.
Truly,
-Dutch
Biodiesel (refined waste vegetable oil/WVO) consumer for several years.
WVO is "Waste Vegitable Oil". It is just that, waste, used material. WVO fuels and Biodiesel refined from WVO is a bonus that we can extract from the refuse of America's love of fried foods.
You seem to have bought into the propaganda campaign funded by BP and Chevron that "Biofuels are unsustainable" or that they take food out of the eating cycle. That's hogwash. The overwhelming force of the heavily Taxpayer-subsidized corn and Soy industries derailed most attempts to implement other sustainable sources for Ethanol or Biodiesel such as Switch Grass (a wild weed that produces many many times more gallons of fuel per acre than Soy or Corn), Tallow (another super-productive plant), Beet sugar, Waste cooking oils and many others.
They have attempted to create a perception that using Foodstocks or waste oils for fueling transportation somehow takes food off the market and increases pressure on third world peoples.
The truth is that the Corn and Soy producers have attempted to utilize their products for everything but food, in products such as plastic- or cardboard-like packaging, lubricants, food sweeteners or other additives, Pharma drugs, beer, car tires and even spark plugs. (Corn is now a 'cheap' feed for Cows, that are not equipped by nature to digest it and thus must be fed a steady diet of anti-biotics to cope with the effects of a corn diet. Who eats the meat grown on Corn and antibiotics? You and your family do.)
Giant Agribusiness has massively over-produced Corn and Soy to the exclusion of a variety of core crops, and now need more ways to market it (aside from the dumping of our surplus on foreign markets, suffocating their production abroad and forcing 1.5 million Mexican Corn Farmers out of a livelihood- just one commonly cited example).
So the concocted story Corn and Soy being taken from the mouths of babes to feed our transportation needs is a ruse. The Petroleum Giants such as Chevron are also manufacturers of oil-based fertilizers and pesticides by the way. When they claim that we need to keep plants out of the gas tank, they are simply promoting the status quo and further consumption of a finite, dwindling resource, oil. The less oil available, the higher the price. Simple math.
So telling people that putting used cooking oil in their "gas tank" is bad for the starving kiddies in Africa is just another tactic to keep consumption up and the flow of oil profits at record levels as long as possible.
Truly,
-Dutch
Biodiesel (refined waste vegetable oil/WVO) consumer for several years.
Comment
About
Badge
© 2009 Created by Davis Fleetwood on Ning. Create a Ning Network!
You need to be a member of OPERATION ITCH to add comments!
Join this Ning Network