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Originally Posted by 9th Engineer
Maybe if we were allowed to use our own supplies (wouldn't want to hurt a few caribou) and stopped tanking incentives for broadening ethinol production we wouldn't have to be funding terrorism.
Why did the worlds largest supply of oil have be sitting under the asses of a bunch of psychotic nomads??? It's like a sick joke or something. Someone call global eminent domain on their asses and admit them to a nice psych ward, we'll tell the candy stripers to cover their arms to show we're meeting them partway.
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Two reasons:
-1)There isn't as much oil up there that's as cheaply accessible at the same quality as shipping it from the Mideast.
-2)Ethanol isn't all that great. It takes a tremendous amount of power to produce, even if it does burn cleaner in autos. I'm pretty sure (though I can't remember where you actually have a net loss of CO2 when making and burning ehtanol fuel.