John Edwards Says Give Up Your SUV

[Gewehr98]

We almost flattened a Pious tonight with the Suburban on the way home from work. The Pious owner made a dumb move.  That would've been interesting, come to think of it - a self-righteous vehicle destroyed by the Tool of Satan, pretty ironic. 

[Paddy]

We almost flattened a Pious tonight with the Suburban on the way home from work.

Suburbans rollover often enough to make an occasional sacrifice worthwhile. 

[Fly320s]

Anyone watch Glenn Beck?

Last night he had Richard Branson on for an interview.  At one point, the discussion turned to global warming/climate change and the need to replace fossil fuels with something less polluting.  Branson said that by the end of next year, 2008, he and his partners (Boeing, GE turbine engines, others) will fly a jet aircraft that produces zero carbon dioxide emissions. 

He didn't mention the type of fuel that will be used, but he alluded to a sugar/corn ethanol type fuel.

[Thor]

Riley, think about all of the energy used to manufacture the batteries, the hazWaste disposal issues and more energy use for replacement batteries. The Prius is not the answer, yet. It may help use less gasoline from the pump, but the rest is a pipe dream.

[Paddy]

The Prius is not the answer, yet. It may help use less gasoline from the pump, but the rest is a pipe dream.

Anything that burns fossil fuel is not the answer.  I don't drive the Prius, it belongs to SWMBO.  She wanted it, she bought it, and she loves it.  It's loaded with everything you can possibly get, even a GPS that talks to you. It has a Bluetooth setup through the speakers, and you can control the inside temp with voice commands.

[Firethorn]

He didn't mention the type of fuel that will be used, but he alluded to a sugar/corn ethanol type fuel.

Then it emits CO2 as part of it's operation.

It's just that it's 'neutral' in the sense that the CO2 was removed from the atmosphere in the creation of the fuel.

It might not even be particularly green; there are plenty of extremely ungreen ethanol plants that have shady emissions controls and some even use coal fired boilers for their distilling systems.

[wacki]

He didn't mention the type of fuel that will be used, but he alluded to a sugar/corn ethanol type fuel.

Then it emits CO2 as part of it's operation.

It's just that it's 'neutral' in the sense that the CO2 was removed from the atmosphere in the creation of the fuel.

It might not even be particularly green; there are plenty of extremely ungreen ethanol plants that have shady emissions controls and some even use coal fired boilers for their distilling systems.

There are more than a few highly respected Professors that claim corn based ethanol plants are worse than oil for the environment and won't make a dent in our oil supply anyway.  Sugar cane is good though.... other than it requires mowing down the rain forest to scale up.