[Puddleglum]

What do you heat it to 900 degrees with?

[mcg2000]

So all we'll be doing is replacing the Muslim Terrorists' with Eco Terrorists?

[hflynn]

Juan Andres Soria is a block head. Just try cutting down trees for bio-oil in this country and see what happens.

Hey Juan, I have a novel idea, why don't we simply drill for oil?

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Interestingly enough, you can grow three times the amount of biomass per acre growing hemp than you can growing trees.

Hemp makes far superior paper products as well.

The only problem is that another name for hemp is marijuana.

[GingisK]

I guess these youngsters didn't catch the switch from wood to coal in those old steam engines. Seems they were'nt getting enough energy from the wood.

[Fierce Allegiance]

I'm ready to go!

[Jack of all Trades]

2005 becomes 1905, and town gas becomes all the rage again.

[Anitius Severinus Boethius]

Sounds like he "discovered" what Changing World Technologies has already figured out.

[BulletBobCo]

Treebeard's not gonna like this.

[Texas Songwriter]

How will the government allow cutting down a tree.

[techcor]

BTTT

[snowsislander]

During WWII, Japan actually created fuel from pine roots and removed quite a bit of its forests in the process. But from what I have read of it, it was poor fuel that never worked all that well.

I did a quick Google search with "pine root Japan fuel", and I found this page http://www.cominganarchy.com/ that mentions the subject.

Pine roots being harvested in 1945 to be processed into fuel (photo from above website).

[TheForceOfOne]

So how many trees will it take to fill up my tank?

[sportutegrl]

There is a huge new development being built across the road from where I live. Step one seems to be bulldoze all of the trees down, while Step two is pile them up and burn them. I guess the air wasn't dirty enough or maybe it was too cool at 90 degrees.

[BallyBill]

We have Penn State students working on coal alternatives to even process jet fuel. Wait till the anti everything eco nuts find out about these type things. We aren't even allowed to get our own oil out of the ground in the USA. Thanks AlGore!!

[Old Professer]

At ~$2.50/gallon, methanol ain't exactly cheap as a feedstock.

[biblewonk]

energy ping.

Same as bio diesel but a different plant.

[from occupied ga]

Grad Student Believes Wood May Replace Oil

In related news, grade schooler believes that people can all walk to work, high school student believes that solar powered vehicles are practical, Democrats believe that wealth should be distributed rather than earned.

[rollo tomasi]

I hope Eileen Collins does not have a heart attack after she reads this theory.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1456822/posts