Oil prices and alternative energy
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Posted by GD, Tuesday, December 2, 2008, 9:28 pm The irony here is that "fuel" is the dirty word. You wanna use algae to grow petrochemicals as the raw materials for plastics -- great! You wanna burn those same hydrocarbons??? You're still turning the air into mud.
Posted by Stevarooni, Wednesday, December 3, 2008, 9:29 am It's kind of a Catch-22, isn't it? If fuel prices rise too much, nobody can afford the resources to research alternatives, while if fuel prices drop, the incentive for that research dries up.
Posted by city2005, Wednesday, December 3, 2008, 9:46 am What is wrong with you people, Oil is dirty cheap from the ground? They don't pay anything for it. Having made all the money, they don't bother to repay God.
Posted by rob, Friday, December 5, 2008, 9:56 am gd, in growing the algae, you soak up the hydrocarbons that you burn. it's a zero sum game!
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