what will all those red state big ag companies do with their soy and corn? That's why there's so little research. Even if the research proves out, it realistically won't go forward. Not in Con Agra's or Cargill's interests, you see.

I had read that the problem is that pig farmers need money to turn pig excrement into a great bio fuel we all know, methane (or fart gas). It takes a big tank and the ability to seal it so it is anaerobic and equipment to extract the gas, dry it and pump it into tanks. Some municipalities successfully use biofuel derived from sewage treatment into gas to power vehicles. Pig and chicken farmers need money to do this with the excrement to both save the environment and produce fuel. But would congress give them any? Ohh no.

Now, it is a lot easier to wage war on Iraq to save those poor people from "opression" so we can more easily pump the oil out of the ground and give it to multinational oil companies so they can sell it to countries like Spain that didn't want to fund the war. For that we have ripped off the American Public to the tune of $300 billion, and the math says that translates into $4,000 per family. How much biogas could that have bought and how many pig farmers could have realized their dream of digesting their excrement and avoiding pollution?

Hmm. And mind you, there is enough excrement in this country, with all the sewage and animal waste, not to mention all the stuff coming out of politicians mouths, to produce a huge percentage of our power. No one has figured it out yet exactly, but a rough calculation showed me it was close to what we import in BTU's.

So, there you go. The old American farmer gets screwed again in favor of people half way around the world not to mention the $4,000 per family that this war has cost us tax payers. Ouch!

The Federal Government works for the Coal, Gas,

and Oil industry. Why expect any research-help

from the PetroFederal Government? Why even bother?

Why not...instead...advocate a research consortium of Blue States who have no coal,natgas,

or oil within their borders? These state governments and the people therein would have a

genuine incentive to pursue research leading to

Blue State independence from the Fossil Carbon

Cartels. How to fund such research? A unitary

system of gas and diesel taxes across all the

Blue States which want to form such a consortium.

That tax money could be spent on pond scum research, pig-poo reclamation, passenger-rail

restoration, wind/wave/tidal power interception,

aggressive deep conservation, and all other effective measures which would lead to the deletion of Fossil Carbon from the Blue State

energy portfolio.