Comments on: Let’s Save the Planet — Without Starving People http://pjmedia.com/blog/lets-save-the-planet-%e2%80%94-without-starving-people/ Thu, 16 Feb 2012 01:18:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Postcard from the Staycation | The Anchoress http://pjmedia.com/blog/lets-save-the-planet-%e2%80%94-without-starving-people/#comment-1203723 Postcard from the Staycation | The Anchoress Tue, 23 Aug 2011 23:44:25 +0000 http://dev.pajamasmedia.com/blog/lets-save-the-planet-%e2%80%94-without-starving-people/#comment-1203723 [...] blowing-things-up movies that everyone likes, on account of their big carbon footprints and the energy crisis and the cut in our oil reserves and that grid he’s always talking about not being shored up, [...] [...] blowing-things-up movies that everyone likes, on account of their big carbon footprints and the energy crisis and the cut in our oil reserves and that grid he’s always talking about not being shored up, [...]

]]> By: CSPAN: Don’t blame us! | The Anchoress http://pjmedia.com/blog/lets-save-the-planet-%e2%80%94-without-starving-people/#comment-85595 CSPAN: Don’t blame us! | The Anchoress Fri, 01 Aug 2008 21:36:18 +0000 http://dev.pajamasmedia.com/blog/lets-save-the-planet-%e2%80%94-without-starving-people/#comment-85595 [...] alternative fuels are expensive and not yet abundant, we’re burning food for fuel (which is morally questionable) she and her party don’t care if the gas prices go to $10.00 a gallon (see video). Obama [...] [...] alternative fuels are expensive and not yet abundant, we’re burning food for fuel (which is morally questionable) she and her party don’t care if the gas prices go to $10.00 a gallon (see video). Obama [...]

]]> By: CSPAN: Don’t blame us! | The Anchoress http://pjmedia.com/blog/lets-save-the-planet-%e2%80%94-without-starving-people/#comment-85596 CSPAN: Don’t blame us! | The Anchoress Fri, 01 Aug 2008 21:36:18 +0000 http://dev.pajamasmedia.com/blog/lets-save-the-planet-%e2%80%94-without-starving-people/#comment-85596 [...] alternative fuels are expensive and not yet abundant, we’re burning food for fuel (which is morally questionable) she and her party don’t care if the gas prices go to $10.00 a gallon (see video). Obama [...] [...] alternative fuels are expensive and not yet abundant, we’re burning food for fuel (which is morally questionable) she and her party don’t care if the gas prices go to $10.00 a gallon (see video). Obama [...]

]]> By: Questions in the Blogosphere III | The Anchoress http://pjmedia.com/blog/lets-save-the-planet-%e2%80%94-without-starving-people/#comment-33002 Questions in the Blogosphere III | The Anchoress Mon, 28 Apr 2008 16:47:27 +0000 http://dev.pajamasmedia.com/blog/lets-save-the-planet-%e2%80%94-without-starving-people/#comment-33002 [...] “manmade” is hoo-hah. Mark Steyn is looking at ethanol ethics, as I did last week and last month. IBD wonders if we can undo the ethanol mistake. There’s all kinds of inconvenient [...] [...] “manmade” is hoo-hah. Mark Steyn is looking at ethanol ethics, as I did last week and last month. IBD wonders if we can undo the ethanol mistake. There’s all kinds of inconvenient [...]

]]> By: Is Ethanol crossing and Ethical line? | The Anchoress http://pjmedia.com/blog/lets-save-the-planet-%e2%80%94-without-starving-people/#comment-32149 Is Ethanol crossing and Ethical line? | The Anchoress Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:20:48 +0000 http://dev.pajamasmedia.com/blog/lets-save-the-planet-%e2%80%94-without-starving-people/#comment-32149 [...] last month I wrote at Pajamas Media: …proponents of ethanol, despite growing evidence that food energies are causing some [...] [...] last month I wrote at Pajamas Media: …proponents of ethanol, despite growing evidence that food energies are causing some [...]

]]> By: LMstuff http://pjmedia.com/blog/lets-save-the-planet-%e2%80%94-without-starving-people/#comment-32122 LMstuff Wed, 23 Apr 2008 21:12:38 +0000 http://dev.pajamasmedia.com/blog/lets-save-the-planet-%e2%80%94-without-starving-people/#comment-32122 We need to tap our the ANWR and respect the environment as best we can. It's unfortunate but I think it's the best we can do for now to get out of this mess. This will hold us off while we work on alternative technologies other than ethanol that would not effect our food supply. We could then wean off the ethanol in the process. There are 100's of promising technologies that are being suppressed by big oil! If we only spent 1/2 of the Iraq war dollars on them we would be sitting pretty right now. We need to make a commitment to be 100% off oil by a certain time. Similar to CA emissions laws. We have the capability to do this. WE NEED TO GET RID OF OUR OIL DEPENDENCE & THE GREED that goes with it. (Dubai is looking real nice now thanks to all our $$$) The Government needs to step up and get the ball rolling! Also so why is it that I can buy a diesel car in Europe that gets more than twice the MPG (not liters) than their American versions? I personally contacted Mini about why they will not sell me the diesel version and they said they do not have any plans to sell a diesel model here in the USA when the bulk of their European sales are diesel. Chrysler an American company does the same thing. Same US cars diesel model available in Europe and not in the US????? Go figure! Diesel Technology these days is really efficient and just as clean as gas or cleaner in most cases. Sorry to get off topic. We need to tap our the ANWR and respect the environment as best we can. It’s unfortunate but I think it’s the best we can do for now to get out of this mess. This will hold us off while we work on alternative technologies other than ethanol that would not effect our food supply. We could then wean off the ethanol in the process. There are 100′s of promising technologies that are being suppressed by big oil! If we only spent 1/2 of the Iraq war dollars on them we would be sitting pretty right now.

We need to make a commitment to be 100% off oil by a certain time. Similar to CA emissions laws. We have the capability to do this. WE NEED TO GET RID OF OUR OIL DEPENDENCE & THE GREED that goes with it. (Dubai is looking real nice now thanks to all our $$$) The Government needs to step up and get the ball rolling!

Also so why is it that I can buy a diesel car in Europe that gets more than twice the MPG (not liters) than their American versions? I personally contacted Mini about why they will not sell me the diesel version and they said they do not have any plans to sell a diesel model here in the USA when the bulk of their European sales are diesel. Chrysler an American company does the same thing. Same US cars diesel model available in Europe and not in the US????? Go figure! Diesel Technology these days is really efficient and just as clean as gas or cleaner in most cases. Sorry to get off topic.

]]> By: Neo-Con Cory http://pjmedia.com/blog/lets-save-the-planet-%e2%80%94-without-starving-people/#comment-30806 Neo-Con Cory Wed, 16 Apr 2008 15:34:19 +0000 http://dev.pajamasmedia.com/blog/lets-save-the-planet-%e2%80%94-without-starving-people/#comment-30806 I love the name calling. I guess that I would be a neo-con. We don't all drive Hummer h3s or fly around the world in our private jets (Al Gore) I think the main reason that farmers are switching from food crops to fuel crops is that it is subsidized by the government. This has brought us to the point of importing wheat for the first time because farmers are switching to corn to put in our fuel tanks. Oil has a huge supply and is way more efficient than ethanol, and as it is now coming out, does less to pollute the environment. I agree that we will eventually need to switch away from petrol base energy, but the free market will do it better and without squashing as many people as the government can. The government is NENER the answer. Ever. I love the name calling. I guess that I would be a neo-con. We don’t all drive Hummer h3s or fly around the world in our private jets (Al Gore) I think the main reason that farmers are switching from food crops to fuel crops is that it is subsidized by the government. This has brought us to the point of importing wheat for the first time because farmers are switching to corn to put in our fuel tanks. Oil has a huge supply and is way more efficient than ethanol, and as it is now coming out, does less to pollute the environment. I agree that we will eventually need to switch away from petrol base energy, but the free market will do it better and without squashing as many people as the government can. The government is NENER the answer. Ever.

]]> By: Teenage America says “yeah, whatever.” | The Anchoress http://pjmedia.com/blog/lets-save-the-planet-%e2%80%94-without-starving-people/#comment-29320 Teenage America says “yeah, whatever.” | The Anchoress Thu, 10 Apr 2008 06:16:49 +0000 http://dev.pajamasmedia.com/blog/lets-save-the-planet-%e2%80%94-without-starving-people/#comment-29320 [...] to foreign oil (rather than independently supplied by her own resources) and is content to starve the world to burn dubiously “clean” bio fuels. I am at a loss to understand - and a little worried by - America’s willingness to be led [...] [...] to foreign oil (rather than independently supplied by her own resources) and is content to starve the world to burn dubiously “clean” bio fuels. I am at a loss to understand – and a little worried by – America’s willingness to be led [...]

]]> By: Engineer-Poet http://pjmedia.com/blog/lets-save-the-planet-%e2%80%94-without-starving-people/#comment-26664 Engineer-Poet Thu, 27 Mar 2008 03:33:51 +0000 http://dev.pajamasmedia.com/blog/lets-save-the-planet-%e2%80%94-without-starving-people/#comment-26664 Actually, the best way to get rid of surpluses is not to grow them in the first place.  The USA used to have a program that did that, and reserves sufficient to deal with a bad harvest.  Then we had some folks deciding that they could do things on the cheap and let someone else hold the reserves, a bad harvest caused prices to skyrocket, and we got a "grow everything we can" farm program. Huge surpluses led to ethanol as a farm-price support program.  Ethanol led to skyrocketing prices.  History doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes. Actually, the best way to get rid of surpluses is not to grow them in the first place.  The USA used to have a program that did that, and reserves sufficient to deal with a bad harvest.  Then we had some folks deciding that they could do things on the cheap and let someone else hold the reserves, a bad harvest caused prices to skyrocket, and we got a “grow everything we can” farm program.

Huge surpluses led to ethanol as a farm-price support program.  Ethanol led to skyrocketing prices.  History doesn’t repeat itself, but it rhymes.

]]> By: Jakester http://pjmedia.com/blog/lets-save-the-planet-%e2%80%94-without-starving-people/#comment-26548 Jakester Wed, 26 Mar 2008 16:28:03 +0000 http://dev.pajamasmedia.com/blog/lets-save-the-planet-%e2%80%94-without-starving-people/#comment-26548 Engineer-Poet, you're 100 % correct. Ethanol only made sense when there were huge surpluses that would rot away anyways. The people here have to blame liberals cause it's the easiest thing to do, they are simple minded right wing hacks who think in one dimension. The best way to fight global warming is to fight the spread of deserts and destruction of the rain forests: green things convert solar energy to sugar and fiber and eat CO2. Meanwhile, be a good neo-con and drive your Hummer h2 everywhere cause you can always find a liberal hypocrite to make you feel good. Engineer-Poet,
you’re 100 % correct. Ethanol only made sense when there were huge surpluses that would rot away anyways. The people here have to blame liberals cause it’s the easiest thing to do, they are simple minded right wing hacks who think in one dimension. The best way to fight global warming is to fight the spread of deserts and destruction of the rain forests: green things convert solar energy to sugar and fiber and eat CO2. Meanwhile, be a good neo-con and drive your Hummer h2 everywhere cause you can always find a liberal hypocrite to make you feel good.

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