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Alternative Energy: It's Time To Move On

re: Moving ON
Jeff
Please read Howard Kunstler's "The Long Emergency". Kunstler says (he is an expert) he says ethanol is a stupid joke that is being fostered by the big oil companies because they know that it takes a huge amount of oil to make ethanol. Switching to corn based ethanol is huge blunder and is typical of the kind of mindless business centric decesions that the Bush adminstration is famous for. The use of ethanol is a red herring that will tend to allow the policy makers to take their eyes off the real solutions. Kuntsler says that conservation, nuclear power, wind, solar and geothermal are the only ways that civilization can get past "Hubbert's Peak" (the point in time when we run out of oil) without world wide chaos. Conservation should include public transpotation, electric vehicles, trains instead of trucks and planes, live and work communities.
Gale Whitaker