Tuesday, September 11, 2007

Al Gore can shove it...

According to this report, burning oil and replanting trees is better than using biofuels.
According to Electronic Vagrant's favorite website, biofuel is defined as "liquid or gas transportation fuel derived from biomass". Like E85 that GM advertises? As of 2006, more than half of the E85 pumps are in Minnesota. Helpful for the little over 5.1 million people who live there. Not so helpful for the rest of the 297 million people....(A little math thanks to the U.S. Census website)

So, I assume this doesn't include electricity? I don't know how it all works. But, concerning low-emission vehicles, it is actually illegal to buy "Partial Zero Emissions Vehicle" in all but eight states. Is this type of car better than biofuel? Is this considered biofuel? Should we use oil to run these cars?

In summary, the government doesn't want you to buy better than hybrid vehicles. Some scientists don't want you to use biofuels.
I wonder what Al Gore's tree hugging position is....


UPDATE: Read the comments for intelligent discussion from others and more stupidity/ignorance from me.