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EPA wants to increase ethanol to 15%
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<blockquote data-quote="Big Sky" data-source="post: 577800" data-attributes="member: 3460"><p>Let's ramp up the cellulose ethanol. Out here in the northern Rockies, we got cellulose. Pine beetle infestation has killed up to 2/3rds of the trees in some forests (mostly lodge pole but the other species are getting it too) and the "red spread" shows no sign of abatement. All that standing dead timber (cellulose) - millions and millions of trees - will eventually fall and rot on the forest floor or, as is more likely, will be consumed in wildfires of proportions never seen before. Of course, the fires will add millions (billions? trillions?) of tons of particulate carbon and carbon dioxide to the atmosphere which will increase climate change ("global warming", if you prefer) which will increase temperatures and drought, which will accelerate the beetle kill, which will lead to more catastrophic fires... Yet the environmentalists oppose getting the dead trees out of the woods, let alone making use of all that perfect cellulose fiber. Oh, yeah, one more thing: imagine the damage to the watersheds and aquatic species populations when we get the foul runoff from all those denuded mountains.</p><p></p><p>Craziness indeed.</p><p></p><p>Flame away.</p><p></p><p>Edit: I don't see this thread so much as a political discussion as one involving economics.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Big Sky, post: 577800, member: 3460"] Let's ramp up the cellulose ethanol. Out here in the northern Rockies, we got cellulose. Pine beetle infestation has killed up to 2/3rds of the trees in some forests (mostly lodge pole but the other species are getting it too) and the "red spread" shows no sign of abatement. All that standing dead timber (cellulose) - millions and millions of trees - will eventually fall and rot on the forest floor or, as is more likely, will be consumed in wildfires of proportions never seen before. Of course, the fires will add millions (billions? trillions?) of tons of particulate carbon and carbon dioxide to the atmosphere which will increase climate change ("global warming", if you prefer) which will increase temperatures and drought, which will accelerate the beetle kill, which will lead to more catastrophic fires... Yet the environmentalists oppose getting the dead trees out of the woods, let alone making use of all that perfect cellulose fiber. Oh, yeah, one more thing: imagine the damage to the watersheds and aquatic species populations when we get the foul runoff from all those denuded mountains. Craziness indeed. Flame away. Edit: I don't see this thread so much as a political discussion as one involving economics. [/QUOTE]
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