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To: m1911
"I bet any money the environmental wackos will find something wrong with it though."

That's easy - it's still hydrocarbon fuels. It doesn't do anything about greenhouse gases. In fact, it encourages them.

Negative on that. Here's the cycle.

1. Corn plants grow by extracting carbon from atmosphere

2. Turkey's eat the corn plants

3. Turkey guts get reprocessed into oil

4. SUV burns oil, returning carbon to atmosphere

It's a closed carbon cycle. The only time carbon gets added to the atmosphere is when something is fed into the machine that was originally manufactured from drilled oil. For example, plastic made from Texas crude; but that's no worse than the situation today. All other organic sources, slaughterhouse waste, sawmill waste, agro waste and sewage reprocessing represent a closed carbon cycle and a vast improvement in the global warming scenario.

Of course you know this means a new ice age is coming since we need increased atmospheric carbon to offset the previously scheduled ice age ;)

80 posted on 04/21/2003 11:50:15 AM PDT by MalcolmS (I Engineer)
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To: MalcolmS
LOL. Good points. Somehow the Luddite faction is NOT going to dig this though. I guess instead of trying to outguess them I'll just let them come up with their own insanity.
81 posted on 04/21/2003 11:51:47 AM PDT by m1911
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To: MalcolmS
I wonder if the homeless tribe could be weaned away from shopping carts into harvesting kudzu. And what about leaves and yard waste? right now the lawn services in my neighborhood sweep yard waste illegally into the storm sewers.
89 posted on 04/21/2003 12:27:31 PM PDT by js1138
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