I watched the hearings from the Hill today...interesting information to take in. Couple of points: First, a personal pet-peeve....if you think that any sort of fuel that is made from something that is currently part of the food-supply-chain...I think your are nuts. The only thing "bio" that is reasonable to turn into fuel is something that I would probably just throw away or flush...
1. If the ANWR had been opened back in "The day" estimates are that it would have been just about depleted now. (Not sure of the validity of that...)
2. Real renewables (wind, tidal) tend to fit in alignment with major population areas in the U.S.
3. Vehicles other than "plug-ins" compete for a depleting resource and in many cases can not take advantage of renewables.
T. Boone made a good case, but I tell ya, the guy that followed him was in disagreement on certain points. Trying to find his name....
One thing that also bothers me is the continued idea that certain options will only last for 10 or 15 years, but will eventually run out... That gets close to whining and seems to have the "Why bother, it'll only break" attitude. For some I guess it is easy to quit before you start so you don't have to do it later... I realize that there is a lot of money at stake if you are going to switch from one to the other along the way. Apparently most things are in fact a stop-gap until a better application of the electric vehicle is developed or a true renewable bio-fuel is developed that is comparable to the efficiency of gas.
Link to the CSPAN Video Library:
http://www.c-spanarchives.org/librar...ts_id=206507-1