Living where I do, working where I do, I get to to hear all of the enviromental jib jab, Both good and bad, straight as it is ready to be put to the public.
The Biofuel idea has been hijacked by big money interests in ways that had not been foreseen. In retrospect how could we have been so blind? We are dealing with people that are more powerful than us, intellectually and, every way where it counts. Not by just a few points but in levels of magnitude that even as I am writing this it just does not seem plausible. The Big Fuel folks realized that there was a gold mine on their hands and went for it. More power to them. Sad, just sad, they did not consider the things that are supposed to make it work, like locality. Nope, just bottom line. With their vast resources they can bring the raw material from around the world or just make it somewhere else and ship it here for less than we can make it in our own countries. THAT is not the point of the whole thing! It is keeping the overall costs down. Keeping the overall distance that product is sent. KEEPING THE OVERALL DISTANCE THE PROFITS ARE SPENT DOWN! KEEPING THE PROFITS LOCAL TO BOOST THE LOCAL ECONOMY! Investing back into your local companies may be more espensive but we have reached a critical juncture when if you do not take a stand everything that you remember will be wiped out by a giant cookie cutter "we know what is best, stop thinking" mindset. We have all heard this before.I know it is easy to look the other way. Please do not. If you send your money away from the area you spent it in you are perpetuating a lifestyle that is as unfair as anyone can imagine. You go down to Stupid Mart and buy a pair of $20 jeans. You think that is pretty cool because that same pair of jeans cost $38 at a local shop. Only thing is that the people you bought it from are only making what? $6 an hour, at the most, and no health care insurance so you are having to pay that in your own taxes. And the bulk of the profits from that puchase are most certainly not being spent in your community. They are being spent in places that your well being does not matter. In fact, not even thinking about you. GOOD BYE