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To: TimF who wrote (347987)	8/22/2007 2:07:36 PM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573814

re: Of course bin Laden is morally responsible for 9/11 as was everyone else who authorized, participated in, funded, or supported it. But not getting bin Laden doesn't mean the act was avenged it just means it wasn't perfectly avenged. It wouldn't be perfectly avenged unless we got everyone who "authorized, participated in, funded, or supported it", and arguably not unless we totally destroyed every last remnant of Al Qaeda. "Perfectly avenged"? If you'll accept that you will probably accept hardly avenged. Which is where we stand. We should have gotten bin Laden and his lieutenants when we have the chance in Afghanistan... and if we had to chased them into Pakistan. That would have been ~90% victory in the war on terror. bin Laden WAS international terrorism. Too bad we went to Iraq for the oil instead...

To: TimF who wrote (347987)	8/22/2007 2:15:01 PM
From: Road Walker	Respond to of 1573814

world's largest biofuel plant, capable of producing 110 million litres (29 million gallons) of fuel annually from animal fat, has been inaugurated in Brazilian capital, the Spanish news agency EFE said. SAO PAULO (Dow Jones)--One of Brazil's largest meatpackers, the Bertin group, plans to begin operation on Tuesday of what could be the world's biggest biodiesel plant run on cow tallow, the company said Friday. The launch ceremony of the 110-million-liter-per-year plant, which is located in the municipality of Lins in Sao Paulo state, will be attended by Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, a big biofuel advocate. The 40 million Brazilian real plant ($19.8 million) was originally supposed to start in June, but delays of equipment due to other orders from the country's heated biofuel sector pushed the launch date to August, a Bertin spokeswoman said in a phone interview with Dow Jones Newswires. Under Lula's administration, Brazil, already the world's leading ethanol exporter, has mandated an obligatory 2% mix of biodiesel in all diesel starting Janaury 2008, with the mix set to be bumped to 5% by 2013. This directive has helped spur a spate of investments across the South American nation in its biodiesel sector, at a time of rocketing world oil prices and growing global warming fears. While Bertin expects to produce its biodiesel principally from cow fat, which is currently one of Brazil's cheapest feedstocks, the plant can also use vegetable oils to produce the biofuel, said the Bertin press person. One of Brazil's major biofuel plant manufacturers, Dedini SA Industrias de Base, constructed the Bertin plant. Bertin has stepped up its investments in other areas of bio-energy recently as well. The company earlier this year entered a joint-venture with local agribusiness company JB Agropecuaria to construct a BRL330 million ($163.3 million) ethanol mill in the city of Dourados in the center-west state of Mato Grosso do Sul. The mill, which should begin operation in the 2009-10 harvest (May-April), will crush an initial 2.3 million metric tons of cane in its first harvest. The mill's final cane-crushing capacity is estimated at 4 million tons. Brazil is one of the world's leading biofuel producers, principally of sugarcane-based ethanol.