Jillio and Banjo, you are exactly right. There are good things that will come out of the green movement. Chemically Green was started to point out alternative views and let people know when their money is being wasted for green programs that are just plain lies and green washing.

Be sure to check out my upcoming post on the Stimulant Spending Package being proposed by Congress. No earmarks, but full of pork. You and I will be paying for years on a spending bill that probably will not rescue the American economy. Why? Because the housing foreclosure situation and the massive debt of the banks still has not been dealt with. Until these situations are resolved, our economy will continue to struggle and may get worse.

Al Gore does not represent the people, he represents a movement that is trying to scare everyone into believing that global warming will be the death of us all if the countries don’t spend trillions of dollars to reduce Co2 levels in the atmosphere and man is causing global warming. The American tax payer will pay dearly for these programs with little results. Watch out for the CAP AND TRADE BILL that will be coming up for a vote in Congress. Another scam.

Also, ethanol has been a political scam from the start. Check out the CG post on The Inconvenient Truth About Ethanol. Keep up the good work and don’t be fooled by all the green hype that is the buzz words for today. Green is good, but Al Gore has done his country and the world a disservice with his Global Warming Lies.

Please contact me on the CG contact form and I will be glad to share with you about green issues.

* A World Bank study estimated that corn prices “rose by over 60% from 2005-07, largely because of the U.S. ethanol program” combined with market forces.
* An Iowa State University analysis of Chicago Board of Trade data found that implied volatility of corn prices had reached 35% by February 2008, up from 32% in 2007, nearly 29% in 2006 and 22% from 1997 to 2005. The gains were attributed in the Iowa State study to “increased demand for corn from the ethanol industry.”
* The International Monetary Fund estimated recently that the shift of crops out of the food supply to produce biofuels accounted for almost half the recent increases in global food prices. The IMF estimates that global food prices rose 43% in the 12 months ending in March 2008.
Our government chose the wrong white horse to ride using corn ethanol as an alternative fuel source. Disbelief, take a look at our current draft about “Flooding and HIgh Corn Prices” and check out the link about corn ethanol that I recommend everyone read. The USDA, like the rest of our government is in a black hole. After all the flooding with corn selling for over $7.00 per bushel (all time high), will the USDA say food prices have only been slightly affected? I will be in total disbelief. What about you?

For now, that’s true. But I’ve been reading good things about the refinement process (genetically engineered bacteria) as well as GM crops, which is contentious in its own right.

What’s stressing bio-fuel as a viable fuel source is that we’re leaving it pretty late. We should have been looking at such things 20 years ago, so that transition from fossil to bio would have been more smooth.

In time, we’ll get this right, but for now, it’s not really us in Europe and the US that’s going to suffer, but those that are already suffering, such as Africa…