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Posted on Sustainabilitank.info on February 7th, 2006
by Pincas Jawetz (PJ@SustainabiliTank.com)

New York City, February 7, 2006.


 

Eventually a rectangular area appears: ENERGY INDEPENDENCE?


“The answer maybe growing in our own
backyard - live green - go yellow.”

I love it!
Then the inevitable: “Click to hear more” and “GM”.
The picture that opens up is a beer glass with a gas pump in it and
material that looks like a cross between chipped corn or grass chips,
perhaps broken up wood - quite nondescript.. When you open further
it says GM has more cars that go over 30 miles/gallon.

We certainly commend aol.com for them being on their toes - but GM is
really not such an exemplary company. In effect they are going
bankrupt because other car makers did better and more gas saving
cars. 30m/gal is nothing to crow about. Good they recognize ethanol
now!

I hope they do not want to keep us back until we have a cellulose
based ethanol production industry (from wood and switch grass as
suggested by the the president). I would have preferred to see real
corn grains in that beer glass.

The Brazilians have perfected the ethanol vehicles 25 years ago and
GM has rejected backing these ideas for over 25 years by now.

So, I am glad, very glad now, that yellow corn greets me when I open  

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