Waste defined: devoting 30 million acres of prime farmland to growing fuel for cars
Similary with biodiesel, lay waste to rainforests to grow palm oil for biodiesel
All these corn subsidies need to stop in the US imo we need to encourage our farmers to grow diverse crops. It would especially be important if we were to have really high tariffs put in place…wait
I wish he goverment would roll back corn subsidies and use that miney instead to fund farmers to grow actual food for people to eat.
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Oil and coal are just comically inefficient solar
Mate, everything on earth comes back to solar energy eventually, that’s not news, or even a helpful way of thinking about it.
How easy is it to produce an absolute butt load of efficient solar panels which won’t just degrade in 30-40 years? How many tons of rare earth minerals do you have to mine to make that happen?
Now how easy is it to get farmers to grow corn, and stick 10% ethanol in your fuel?
Obviously it’s not anything like a complete solution, but it’s an easy first measure to take.
… I was saying this was a bad idea when it was being workshopped/introduced… because exactly what is happening now is what … I said would probably happen… as I was getting my Econ degree during the 08 financial crash.
… At the time, every lefty/liberal was high on Obama winning and just pooh pooh’d me as being pessimistic for no reason.
I also still think Cash for Clunkers was a bad idea.
Fucked over the used car market, fucks over the poor who couldn’t afford anything better, EVs and Hyrbrids were waaay more expensive back then, only benefitted the better off who just had a car laying around that they didn’t use.
