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My opinion is the biggest problem with any "green", or energy concern is everyone spends all their time trying to defecate all over anyone's ideas that nobody ends up doing anything.
"easy to criticise, hard to create"
Ethanol is NOT the solution that will save the world.
But it IS a bridge away from petroleum which IS a finite resource (how can it not be?)
Most importantly, ethanol is something that runs in our countless millions of existing cars with minimal adjustments, so we don't have to take millions of working machines and throw them away and waste energy and resources building new ones.
Throwing away a working, already-delivered-to-its-theater-of-operation machine is ecologically irresponsible and also retarded.
Sure, let's keep building next-generation vehicles that don't need liquid fuel and stuff... but let's ALSO keep using the machines we have so we don't have to figure out what to do with several hundred million hunks of metal and plastic eh? They'll wear out on their own eventually.
Frankly, if you want to fix the problems caused by humans, the only logical solution is to stop making so many humans. Not by genocide, not by war, not by eugenics, just by waiting longer to start having kids. Have as many as you want, but wait till you're 25 at least. In 100 years, you can have 5 generations breeding at age 20, or 4 generations breeding at age 25, get it? Nobody is prevented from having kids, nobody is oppressed, no rights are being denied anybody, no holocaust is needed. Just everyone getting on board and waiting to have kids until they're older... and better able to afford/raise kids too.
Until people realize the solution to the problems of man is less men, and all get on board with a solution instead of just nagging and whining and criticising it... we may as well be shoveling sand against the tide with a broken spork.
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