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To: LindyBill who wrote (162062)3/25/2006 8:59:26 PM
From: steve harris  Respond to of 793983
 
seems to be THE choice to be made, coal or nuclear to get off oil...



To: LindyBill who wrote (162062)3/25/2006 9:21:10 PM
From: Oral Roberts  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 793983
 
Why don't they use ethanol to make ethanol? The argument about how much energy it makes versus what it uses would be answered rather quickly if they just burned their own fuel and sold what was left over.



To: LindyBill who wrote (162062)3/25/2006 9:52:20 PM
From: ManyMoose  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 793983
 
We have to start converting from petroleum some where, and first starts typically are not too efficient. But if you don't make the first start, when DO you make a change?

The Natural Resources Defense Council needs to come up with some solutions, because from here it looks like they are part of the problem.



To: LindyBill who wrote (162062)3/26/2006 3:07:54 AM
From: Maurice Winn  Respond to of 793983
 
Lindy, the basic environmental rule is that whatever we do is environmentally harmful. Therefore, producing ethanol to go in SUVs produces more CO2 into the atmosphere than is saved and to add insult to injury, there's more energy burned in fossil fuels than is gained from ethanol.

I don't believe it, but that's the claim they make.

Mqurice