bonus: before harvest it will reduce fatalities and noise pollution.

Meanwhile, I stopped in to say exactly what Pete already said – more eloquently than I might attempt.

As many years as I have spent in environmental activism, I’m still embarrassed by the dillweeds who still feel they need no facts, evidence, proof or peer-review to propound useless morality.

I’ll stick with science. Even the corporations I so often have to battle end up wandering back to reality every few quarters/years/decades or so.

The American people have voted for change.

The answer to our energy addiction is a plethora of solutions, the most important of which is better efficiency / lowering consumption. As with the 70′s oil crisis, high prices have reduced demand/consumption – 8% so far this year. Is there something to learn from high prices? Europe taxed fuel so highly for the past four decades that consumption is much lower than ours and engine efficiency is rediculousley higher than our gas hogs. When will we learn that we must increase fuel taxes to allow the market to automatically sustain a downward consumption slide, reduce pollution, reduce imports, and become less dependent on terrorist regimes?

Obama will continue ethanol support because it is the only short term option. History will eventually favor the decision to promote ethanol. Obama will also be favored if he proceeds to aggressively pursue all of the other domestic energy alternatives. That includes nuclear, wind, tidal, geothermal, clean coal, drilling, ethanol (starch, cellulosic and algal), higher efficiency standards and especially higher energy taxes. This is the way out of our predicament.