Ok, this following article is a great read. Now, let me start by saying it is written by Rick Santorum, who I’m not a super huge fan of, but his idea is basically an endorsement of Robert Zubrin’s, an American aerospace engineer.
It basically is a plan to rid us of foreign oil dependance and at the same time bankrupt OPEC. Two birds with one stone baby! How does it work? Mandate all vehicles made in the US are flex-fuel by 2010. They can run off gas/ethanol or gas/methonal.
Pennsylvania coal already generates most of the electricity in this state. The industry is in the process of doing it more cleanly through clean-coal technologies, such as gasification of coal into methanol, a form of alcohol that can be burned in internal combustion engines directly or used to manufacture synthetic gasoline and chemicals. These technologies can lead to a whole host of new clean uses that can help us reduce oil imports.
Santorum also mentions there is a $26 a barrel tax on imported Ethanol. That could be removed I guess, or at least lowered to allow some importing of ethanol until local production could keep up.
The United States is the “Saudi Arabia of coal.” We have a$$ loads of it and will for a long, long time.
Instapundit had a podcast with Zubrin, click here if you want to check it out.
Glenn also says he is hearing rumors from the UAW about supporting the plan. American car makers are generally well ahead on Flex Fuel designs so that makes sense.
I dunno. This stuff is real interesting to read and fun to think about. It’s the kind of stuff that would actually help the country, and doesn’t seem to have any downside, which is probably why nothing will come from it. If a Democrat or Republican can’t “beat” the other, they they won’t try.
A new Ice Age may be on it’s way!! We must raise green house gasses to keep the heat on the planet!!
Seriously, I’m not joking.
The Canadian Space Agency’s radio telescope has been reporting Flux Density Values so low they will mean a mini ice age if they continue.
Like the number of sunspots, the Flux Density Values reflect the Sun’s magnetic activity, which affects the rate at which the Sun radiates energy and warmth. CSA project director Ken Tapping calls the radio telescope that supplies NASA and the rest of the world with daily values of the Sun’s magnetic activity a “stethoscope on the Sun”. In this case, however, it is the “doctor” whose health is directly affected by the readings.
This is because when the magnetic activity is low, the Sun is dimmer, and puts out less radiant warmth. If the Sun goes into dim mode, as it has in the past, the Earth gets much colder.
Don’t tell Manbearpig. They may take his Nobel Prize away.
Jetpacks baby!! Everybody wants one.. maybe someday you can get one!!
Strictly speaking, you could the say the business of jet packs is, indeed, taking off. The number of companies looking to sell them to private consumers has increased by as much as 33 percent in the last week alone. And since the going assumption is that all human beings would like to be able to fly—not by plane or helicopter or oversize cannon, but strapped to a thunderous gadget with intuitive controls—that’s good news.
Bill Clinton… Captain Idiot:
In a long, and interesting speech, he characterized what the U.S. and other industrialized nations need to do to combat global warming this way: “We just have to slow down our economy and cut back our greenhouse gas emissions ’cause we have to save the planet for our grandchildren.”
You can’t keep scaring people by telling them how bad the economey is, then come out and say we need to slow it down more?
Tell ya what… you stop flying around in private jets that create more CO2 in ONE trip across the country then my car will create in my lifetime and I’ll might consider man made Global Warming is actually real.
Until you do that, stick to putting cigars inside of interns.
Ron Paul has nothing on this conspiracy. In 1997 my brother, Andrew and associate Tim Demuth created their own conspiracy website: Free Lee.
Welcome the web page dedicated to proving the innoncence of LEE HARVEY OSWALD. As you enter this page, try to leave the myths of the Warren Report behind you. Also, keep in mind that we will not entertain any thoughts from Gerald Posner, for his research is proven bogus.
Heh, check it out… They were in High School back then. For 1997, I’d say it’s pretty good. 
I watched some of the Republican debate last night. Boy did McCain stink up the joint. He is a poster boy for Viagra. He was all limp and hunched over his microphone while Romney was sitting up strait as a board…heh. With McCain all hunched over I kept waiting for him to jump up and yell, “FIRE BAD!!”
A few things really bothered me about McCain last night. One was the fact he spent like a million years trying t pin a “timetable” go leave Iraq on Romney. From what I’ve read, that’s been pretty much denounced as false, but he kept trying.. I don’t think he came off looking very good after that exchange.
The other thing was his cheap shot about Romney running a business… He said something like “He bought and he sold and sometimes people lost their jobs.” No shit old man, that’s how things work in the real world. You know.. in business you need to actually run a tight ship so you can make money.. you know, the American dream. You’ve been in Washington WAY TO LONG. In the real world you can run up a gajillion dollar debt while you keep adding people to the government dole. Jebus man. Let’s punish a guy for being a sucessful business man. You sounds like a friggen hippy liberal. (Not that there is anything wrong with that.) p.s. there is.
Huckabee, well, we don’t need another former Arkansas governor. Blame Clinton for that one Huck.
I do like Ron Paul, he has some great domestic ideas, but once he hits the waters edge, forget about it. I liked how they asked Paul about McCain’s comment about being in Iraq for 100 years. Duh, the guy didn’t want to go to Iraq so how do you think he is going to answer? You’re dumb Anderson Cooper.
FYI: WWII ended over 60 years ago and we STILL have troops in Japan and Germany. The Korean war ended over 50 years ago and we STILL have troops in South Korea… 100 years in the MidEast doesn’t seem that far off, does it?
P.S. Stephen Green at Vodkapundit drunkblogged the debate. I should really do that sometime. I love drinking and I love watching TV, why not combine the two?
My sister Eden is over in England studying for a semester.. Studying.. yeah, right…
Anyway, she started a blog to talk about it…
John Edwards… done!
One less commie running for President is a good thing. Now he can get his fancy haircuts and go back to one of his Two Americas… the nice one.
The UK gets a Dumass Award for this:
UK: Three Little Pigs ‘too offensive’ for Muslims
A story based on the Three Little Pigs has been turned down from a government agency’s annual awards because the subject matter could offend Muslims.
The digital book, re-telling the classic fairy tale, was rejected by judges who warned that “the use of pigs raises cultural issues”.
The awards which rejected the book are run by Becta, the government’s educational technology agency.
The judging panel also attacked the book’s stereotyping of builders.
The book’s creative director, Anne Curtis, said that the idea that including pigs in a story could be interpreted as racism was “like a slap in the face”.
Seriously? They must be offended by pigs because pigs generally have a better education.
I would like to call Shenanigans on “Celebrity Rehab” with Dr. Drew. There is not ONE single celebrity on that damn show. Just because your last name is Baldwin does NOT make you a celebrity.
I watched this for the first time last night and I’m pretty sure Kenickie is gonna die.
For some reason, I like the porn star.