Comments for I think we’d better think this out again at http://tracypress.com , comment 1 to 24 out of 20 comments http://tracypress.com Fri, 16 May 2008 05:52:33 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://tracypress.com/content/view/14529/2244/#comment-45925 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biofuels... - ....................................... Mon, 12 May 2008 10:12:18 +0100 http://tracypress.com/content/view/14529/2244/#comment-45907 And it would require a permit from the ATF. That was just FYI. Hope you all enjoyed the reading. The more we know the better. - Mother Mon, 12 May 2008 09:11:15 +0100 http://tracypress.com/content/view/14529/2244/#comment-45897 Mother While your articles do sound interesting they are not practical on a national scale. Imagine everyone in America doing this today? There isn't enough land mass in the US to sustain such a broad endeavor. To make it possible would take an additional 500.5 million acres of farm land to make it happen, up from 938.5 million acres to 1.439 billion acres of land. The US only contains something like 2.264 billion acres for all farming and places to live for our population. And not all of that land is suitable for any type of farming as the cost of water in the aired regions of the US make farming all but impossible. Now, just imagine everyone with their own ethanol still brewing away ethanol in their garage. You might just consider this to be an explosive situation. With people so concerned about the possibilities of an explosion from a natural gas pipeline buried in the ground largely away from the city, can you imagine the problem when your next door neighbor starts making ethanol in his garage, especially if he starts to sample his production by ingesting it instead of burning it? While these sorts of scams might work for one or two people inclined to do the work and keeps it safe so it doesn’t pose a threat to others living next door, it’s not possible or practical for everyone in America to do it. The problem with America today has a lot to do with these scams. Also, before you set up your own still you just might want to check with the Fed to get the necessary paperwork in place to allow you to legally produce ethanol or you very well could wind up in serious trouble as you brew up your own “white lightening.” BATF takes a dim view on those who do such things without the proper legal paperwork in place. Dave Hardesty - Dave Hardesty Mon, 12 May 2008 08:19:23 +0100 http://tracypress.com/content/view/14529/2244/#comment-45888 [url]http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/Business/story?id=1902339&page=1[/url] [url]http://running_on_alcohol.tripod.com/[/url] - Mother Mon, 12 May 2008 06:57:12 +0100 http://tracypress.com/content/view/14529/2244/#comment-45887 One way people could reduce fuel usage is to take the ACE train. That might help and if interested you could go to www.acerail.com to find out more information about riding the ACE train to Livermore, Pleasanton, Fremont, and the Silicon Valley. From there you can transfer to other means of public transportation. From Tracy commuters can also carpool and ride a bus to work. I like trains because they are more scenic and less stressful way to get to my doctor, in Livermore. We also took the ACE train to the airport, every year when we go to Hawaii and back to visit our families in South America and Tokyo. To do that all you have to do is jump off the ACE train in Pleasanton and jump on a bus that takes you to BART. Bart goes directly to the San Francisco Airport. You can get to other airports too with a little planning. - RailRoadRetiree Mon, 12 May 2008 06:51:20 +0100 http://tracypress.com/content/view/14529/2244/#comment-45585 Thanks for a well written and very interesting article Dave. I think we (the nation) need to seriously reconsider land usage and our methods of and use of energy. right off the bat, I'd be looking really hard at the prison population. How much energy do they consume verus generate? What do the death row inmates contribute? How much of our economy is wasted on them? Why are we spending more money on new jails and prisons? Another jail or prison is addtional land that could be farmed. Just throwing some ideas out there thats all. :'( - Ubbo Coty Fri, 09 May 2008 20:20:13 +0100 http://tracypress.com/content/view/14529/2244/#comment-45403 Again one problem still remains: How do you fuel the largest logistic military operations, in the world? - k.l .vosburg Thu, 08 May 2008 20:32:21 +0100 http://tracypress.com/content/view/14529/2244/#comment-45304 Okay, seriously, my reservation about using bio-fuel is the enormous water consumption they will use in the farming of bio-fuel. Water is not as plentiful as we thought according to United Nations. If they could find alternative energy not requiring water consumption, I would look into it, too. - amy Thu, 08 May 2008 07:56:58 +0100 http://tracypress.com/content/view/14529/2244/#comment-45299 No offense to you, Dave, Dale and Mark. ;) - amy Thu, 08 May 2008 07:40:58 +0100 http://tracypress.com/content/view/14529/2244/#comment-45298 [b]Help! I've fallen laughing so hard, I can't get back up!!![/b] - amy Thu, 08 May 2008 07:34:16 +0100 http://tracypress.com/content/view/14529/2244/#comment-45289 Why that almost sounds like a bob blinker/Mr. Bananna statement. ;) - Dave Hardesty Thu, 08 May 2008 06:24:32 +0100 http://tracypress.com/content/view/14529/2244/#comment-45281 Maybe Amy and Mark could hook up and reproduce and create a super race of low-impact babies that would telecommute using telepathy and would keep their body temperatures low so as to use less energy. Maybe that would offset some of the greenhouse gases coming out of Dave Hardesty's mouth and Dale Cose's behind? That would maybe be carbon neutral? - amy and mark, sitting in a tree Wed, 07 May 2008 23:42:47 +0100 http://tracypress.com/content/view/14529/2244/#comment-45241 I think the White House suggested biofuel production accounted for only 1.5% of the 43% rise in worldwide food prices (needs validation since the UN is disputing the claim). The other primary drivers seem to be increased demand, worldwide fuel prices (and fertilizer) and supply problems due to drought in Australia (linked to global climate change by many). The more obvious choices of increasing vehicle efficiency and using electric/hybrid vehicles that are ultimately powered by solar, geothermal, natural gas, wind, tidal, etc. Still, there is a intersection point at which the portability and energy density of chemical fuels will be needed for some applications. - Mark Davis Wed, 07 May 2008 16:02:14 +0100 http://tracypress.com/content/view/14529/2244/#comment-45226 Poor little girl, she should be given "hope" that their are intelligent adults who can find the answers to our world's problems, she does not need to live her life in panicky state! More people are realizing they need to look at the long range plan that could lead to problems.. for example Ford did not anticipate car pollution causing problems in the future... end effect needs to be thought out before answers could be brought to fruitition. Nuclear power, while it is useful, end result is nuclear wastes that they are working on now in "neutralizing" the radiative effects of it. I hope they succeed, soon! That little girl needs to feel secure in her world now, but we could gently introduce reality of a life time habit in making sure she does not "litter" the planet, recycle, little things she could do in contributing to it, that is all she needs to know at her tender age! Perhaps she picked it up from a program on television show, then that is pretty much out of our control....could be at home, or at their friend's house. She can tackle her fears by actively contributing to the recyling in her home. Remember the "computer crisis" that the people worried about when the year 2000 came around... well? - amy Wed, 07 May 2008 12:51:19 +0100 http://tracypress.com/content/view/14529/2244/#comment-45211 amy Now you can understand why I attached Bio-fuel to food as another source of rising prices. Panic is always expensive. That is why we really need to think it all the way through BEFORE we take action. k.l. I agree with your comment in part. However I think you can admit that even the larger vehicles are "greener" than they were a decade ago. The problem is one of complacency. If there isn't a serious monetary issue with fuel no one pays any attention to it. Personally I believe the price is artificially high for the perverse reason of getting our attention. But even more, it seems to be a convenient avenue for those with the wherewithal to make a nice wad of cash by investing heavily into the new "green" emergent marketplace. Remember how many people cashed in on the Y2K panic we had at the turn of the century. This global warming scare could be very much the same type of thing. Dave Hardesty - Dave Hardesty Wed, 07 May 2008 11:11:34 +0100 http://tracypress.com/content/view/14529/2244/#comment-45210 Joe I am about as conservative as they come, probably a lot more conservative than you are, but that's speculation on my part. Never the less, I don't believe that Earth Day is communist in origin. And while I may not believe we are on the edge of a global environmental disaster, I do support the notion that we should all do our best to take care of the resources we do have. As a kid when grandpa changed the oil, he simply dumped it into the ground. Today we recycle it and prevent all the dangerous chemicals from leaching into our ground water. Being aware of the correct way to handle these things is a good thing. But solely concentrating on all the negatives and brainwashing children who are incapable of reaching those decisions for them selves is wrong and this is one big objection I have. Just the other day I had a 9 year-old girl come up to me crying and saying how worried she was that we were destroying the earth. The person who put that notion in this child’s mind should be horse whipped in my opinion. Still, all children, and adults, should be aware of the proper way to deal with these things instead of running willy-nilly in a panic. Dave Hardesty Dave Hardesty - Dave Hardesty Wed, 07 May 2008 11:11:02 +0100 http://tracypress.com/content/view/14529/2244/#comment-45196 The word Bio-fuel makes me nervous, food is getting scarce worldwide. I can see Privatized Agricultural farm incorporating Bio-Fuel to their business if they wish to do so IF it is not already happening. People are not to be looked at as "unit", looked at as "resource", they are human beings birthed by no corporations!!! No barcodes on our arms! - amy Wed, 07 May 2008 10:09:04 +0100 http://tracypress.com/content/view/14529/2244/#comment-45195 Except for the refrigerator! ;) - amy Wed, 07 May 2008 10:00:33 +0100 http://tracypress.com/content/view/14529/2244/#comment-45194 I don't know if you will find this useful, those who have electric water tank heater can turn it off when going to work, you will be surprised how much money you save a month. Me, I turn all the power off on fuse box when going to work. Big savings! - amy Wed, 07 May 2008 09:59:58 +0100 http://tracypress.com/content/view/14529/2244/#comment-45188 What are you guys talking about? There's no "pollution" and there's no fairy tale like "global warming"! Rush Limbaugh and BillO says that these are things that commie, tree hugging, lberals want to do to change America into the good ol Soviet Union! Until then I'm gonna drive my truck and SUV, smoke my cigars, keep my house cold like a frig in the summer, and double bag ALL my groceries in plastics and paper when I go grocery shopping just to make you commie, tree hugging liberals happy OK!? - JOE CONSERVATIVE Wed, 07 May 2008 09:03:44 +0100