10-16-2008, 01:58 PM
Ethanol is great, if you want to switch from food crops to fuel crops. Food is people fuel. Ethanol is car fuel. Bio-fuels have caused food prices to skyrocket globally.
The key is to figure out how to do with less or none at all.
A silly as it sounds, Obama was right about tune up your car and slightly over inflate your tires. Take the bus, combine trips, Car pool, line dry your clothes, wear them more between washes. Make a solar water heater, get tough and take a cold shower, Build a Jay Fitz rocket stove. eat food raw, etc.
Try to get your electrical consumption down to 200 - 300 kwh per month.
Get a bike.
Co2 level is a function of Henry's law. You will see in the next 20 tears that Co2 levels will drop as the Sun cycles toward cooling. the ocean temps which lag will drop start absorbing Co2 by the giga-ton.
The key is to figure out how to do with less or none at all.
A silly as it sounds, Obama was right about tune up your car and slightly over inflate your tires. Take the bus, combine trips, Car pool, line dry your clothes, wear them more between washes. Make a solar water heater, get tough and take a cold shower, Build a Jay Fitz rocket stove. eat food raw, etc.
Try to get your electrical consumption down to 200 - 300 kwh per month.
Get a bike.
Co2 level is a function of Henry's law. You will see in the next 20 tears that Co2 levels will drop as the Sun cycles toward cooling. the ocean temps which lag will drop start absorbing Co2 by the giga-ton.