Originally Posted by
⌐ AV8OR WANNABE
I beg to differ, it's no economically viable NOW because we don't use the correct comparison of the true costs.
Instead of simply comparing the cost of producing bio-fuel versus regular oil, we should add all terrorism related charges to the OPEC oil. If you include the cost of atrocities committed by terrorists which usually are supported by OPEC scums the regular oil is actually very expensive.
That's why I seriously think we should put whatever "terrorism fee" necessary on all oil produced by OPEC countries to make bio-fuel viable. If it costs $20 a barrel to produce one barrel of Saudi oil I say put a $100 levy on it and subsidize bio-fuel with that $100...
I know it's idealistic but that's how I feel and I wish there was a way to punish the OPEC (and Russia) scumbags...
It is a mistake to think terrorism is merely a product of oil production, we get a lot of oil from Canada yet we don't have a problem with Canadian terrorists.
Most countries that are major oil producers invest heavily in western economies, little of that money goes to terrorist groups. Terror won't end with windmills, biofuel or solar panels-it is a cheap byproduct of ideology.
There is plenty of oil, coal and NG available, using Fischer-Tropsch and other well known and proven technologies we are not going to have a major disruption. The largest mistake we could make would be to subsidize inefficient and costly energy with an already overburdened financial system.
The ethanol farce was a perfect example of the wrong way forward in energy self-sufficiency.