Re: Question for the anti-ethanol crowd

Uncle Ben wrote:

On Sep 4, 6:18 pm, "Rob Dekker" <r...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"Uncle Ben" <b...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in

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From the Biofuels News Digest of today:
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"How come petroleum gets a free pass and people just tear apart
biofuels?" asks Nikola Davidson, surveying the efforts of protester
Duff Badgley and members of One Earth to allegedly approach and harass
customers of the Propel Biofuels biodiesel station in Seattle.

The group is said to target women, with handouts that describe
biofuels as a "scourge on humankind", a banner reading "Crime Against
Humanity" and, according to Propel CEO Rob Elam, taking photos of
customers and their license plates. Their efforts appear to be
working; according to the Seattle Weekly, traffic is down to one
customer per hour in off-peak periods. One Earth opposes biodiesel
that is not made from waste vegetable oil. Badgley told the Weekly
that he only protests from the sidewalk, but video captured by Propel
found him approaching customers on station property.

Dan Freeman, the owner of Dr. Dan's Biodiesel in Seattle, told the
Weekly that protesters have targeted his customers as well. "They see
a biodiesel sticker on someone's VW and scream at them that they're
killing Mexicans," he told the Weekly.

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This is sad, but rather indicative of people with extreme opinions.
You see it over and over again not just in grassroots affords, but also on
the news groups and in the media as well : people yelling simple statements
that have virtually nothing to do with reality.

It seems to be part of what I would call the "New World Order Disease" ;
people loosing touch with the facts and reason and simply responding
emotionally to oversimplified statements from a few influential individuals.

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I suppose opinion will change when gasoline gets to $10/gallon, while
E85 is still under $5/gallon. This will happen sooner or later as oil
wells lose production.

Uncle Ben

How many corn ethanol plants use ethanol to fuel the distillary? How many corn
farmers use ethanol-powered tractors? How many trucks use ethanol-powered
engines to transport all that corn to the ethanol distillary?


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