I think we should start grinding up all the aborted fetuses and using them as a viable alternative fuel.

Almost every snack product contains Corn Syrup or High Fructose Corn Syrup because it was a inexpensive sweetner. Food manufacturers will either increase their prices or they will have to find a less expensive sweetner.

would that cost an arm and a leg?

I think we should use snow for fuel in the north. There's plenty of that.

Honestly, though, I think someone else posted something about this, and one of the major concerns was that Ethanol takes more energy to make than is in the final product. That just doesn't make sense to me. We need a new alternate fuel, one that doesn't take more energy to create it.

If they did I didn't see it (which wouldn't surprise me).

It sounds great in theory but milk is already an ourageous $3.85 a gallon here because of corn prices. I have heard that it may end up being $5 a gallon. I think they need to keep working on other ways to increase fuel efficiency or other alternative fuels than ethanol.

Brad wrote an article on this a couple of months back. Link

We should use hemp not corn. You don't even have to prepare the farmland just spread the seed wherever and it grows like a weed.

It is in one respect.  NIMBY's and Greens are preventing any new oil refineries from being built.  But are strangely (?) silent on ethanol refineries.  In that there are over 30 in construction right now (versus 0 Petroleum ones).

I think we need to use something that is already in abundance, something that replenishes itself on a daily basis, I think solar power and water are the best alternatives we have. Water evaporates and turns back into water again, solar power is infinate till the sun dies. I find it strange that these sources are ignored so much. I guess if someone can't make a 100% profit on these types of alternative (since no one can charge you for how much solar power you use or they can't change you extra for water, or can they) it's not worth making engines for them.

And the ecological damage from these are going to FAR EXCEED. So while we reduce our dependence on foreign oil we will slowly cut our juguler.

Isn't that what the greens are all about? Look what they did to Nuclear power, and it has the safest track record of any source so far.

It all goes back to Jim Wright and his immortal statement: It is not the evidence that counts, but the seriousness of the charges.

Yea, I wrote about this recently:

http://draginol.joeuser.com/index.asp?AID=151250

Ethanol is not a green fuel by any means and is a boondoggle on top of that. We can't produce enough of it to remotely satisfy our needs.

If dumb people weren't involved in decision making, we would have an energy system something like this:

Nuclear power plants providing electricity. Plug-in Hybrids that go 20 miles on an electric charge before needing to use gas.

Both technologies exist, are relatively cheap in mass production, and would drastically reduce our dependence on foreign oil.

But we won't get them any time soon because the same people who cry about global warming are the same idiots who cry about Nuclear power. It's one of the reason the global warming crowd has so little credibility with a lot of people because we already know that the enviro-left's grasp on science is tenuous at best.

hemp is illegal in the united states becouse of one of its other use

can be built with no chance of a melt down ever.

and be operated with no nuclear waste

My dad worked for Davis Besse Nuclear Power Plant when I was growing up and I'm perfectly normal except for when I glow in the dark. ha ha. Lame, I know. I can't help it. My lameness comes naturally. Maybe I can blame it on nuclear contamination and sue. I'm calling Erin Brockovich.