Ethanol will not be our clean, green savior
AlterNet
by Murray Dobbin
04/10/07
Citizens in industrialized societies will cling to their extravagant lifestyles and massive over-consumption for a while yet, it seems. Global climate change is still seen by most people — even those who have no doubt of its human origins — as something that can be fixed by legislation, tougher rules and punitive penalties on big polluters — and that allegedly clean and green quick fix, ethanol. Yes, we can all keep our individual chunks of steel, rubber and glass, those symbols of 20th century excess and irrationality, so long as we shift to burning alcohol...
http://www.alternet.org/envirohealth/50189/
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=ethanol
by Murray Dobbin
04/10/07
Citizens in industrialized societies will cling to their extravagant lifestyles and massive over-consumption for a while yet, it seems. Global climate change is still seen by most people — even those who have no doubt of its human origins — as something that can be fixed by legislation, tougher rules and punitive penalties on big polluters — and that allegedly clean and green quick fix, ethanol. Yes, we can all keep our individual chunks of steel, rubber and glass, those symbols of 20th century excess and irrationality, so long as we shift to burning alcohol...
http://www.alternet.org/envirohealth/50189/
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=ethanol
rudkla - 11. Apr, 15:24
