This is not a post about the war

Bush said in his State of the Union address that he would seek to break dependence on Middle East oil via new technologies and jack up funding on energy sources including coal and nuclear power as well as wind and solar power, hydrogen and ethanol.
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but…

"In terms of renewable fuels, ethanol is the worst solution. It has the highest energy cost with the least benefit," says Berkley professor Tad W. Patzek. His ethanol critique began during a freshman seminar he taught in which he and his students calculated the energy balance of the biofuel. Taking into account the energy required to grow the corn and convert it into ethanol, they determined that burning the biofuel as a gasoline additive actually results in a net energy loss of 65 percent. Later, Patzek says he realized the loss is much more than that even.
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so…
cost of corn seed = $42.16 per acre
cost of John Deer Tractor = $17,900
cost of fertilizer = $30 per acre
cost of labor to turn corn into ethanol = $5.25 per hour

cost of oil = priceless and counting

I am no expert on biofuels. I am, however, deeply concerned that with our current technological advances that we are still so dependant on oil as an energy source.

A revolution must occur! My new source of transportation with look something like this:














Who's with me? Come on...it'll be fun.