He announced in last night’s state of the union, the “Twenty in Ten” plan.
Basically he wants to reduce gasoline usage by 20% in 10 years, primarily through the use of renewable fuels, which will probably be ethanol (handouts to the corn industry). And because it is in the interest of “energy security,” tariffs will probably be slapped on imported ethanol (another handout to Big Ag).
It all sounds vaguely similar to John Kerry’s proposed Big Ag handout “John Kerry want you to starve!” program called 20 by 2020.
The gist is that to produce that much ethanol from corn, as is typical, requires about 80% more corn than the US currently grows.
(I have since learned from that first post that corn for ethanol isn’t completely used up. Basically just the starch is removed in the process and the rest moves on as some kind of corn-food product which is edible.)
PS - There’s some movie I don’t want to watch about who killed the electric car or some shit. I’m pretty sure it blames GM — with its something like a 1 billion dollar loss — for not digging deeper into their pocket. Anyway, the true killer of the electric car are the Green Ralph Naders of world who demand legislated safety. Without extreme regulation people could be driving around town in golf carts. They’re a fraction of the price of a real car. They’re a fraction of the weight of a real car. I presume they’re much better in energy/passenger mile than a real car. And they’re fucking electric.
We don’t need to spend shitloads of money on new technology. We need to be allowed to use the technology we already have. Dumbasses.
You mean like Segways?
I saw a guy riding one of those a few weeks ago in CVille.
Of course, it had a For Sale sign on it - but still.