Today's New York Times has a front-page story about how biofuels are driving up food prices around the world and how they therefore may not be a such a great idea after all. That could be true if the only feedstocks available for producing biofuels were food crops, as the article implies, but that's far from the truth.
I totally agree with semester. I think any experimenting on alternative fuels that will make the usa self sufficient, and thus people being more self sufficient is a direct threat to the people that control energy. It would mean a shifting of mass wealth in this society. Alternative sources of energy also sparks the creative american mind which has been asleep for many years. This new kind of idea would lead people to think more on the lines of being self sufficient, and thus have an effect on certain segments of business in our society. It is a revolutionary idea that has been discouraged and almost labeled cooky. But America would never have been formed if people had been afraid to take risks.
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