My favorite quote from an article in conservative America’s favorite newspaper.
With recent polls showing that Mr. Obama has cut deeply into Mrs. Clinton’s lead in Texas, or even erased it, the state has become a political battleground to a degree not witnessed in a generation. And the rapidly mounting fight has reminded national political strategists yet again of Texas’ strange largeness — or large strangeness — a state that Congress decided in 1845, the year it joined the Union, might well be later divided into four more states should it consent.
While biofuels sounded good at first glance, if the Bush administration is pushing them, it’s reasonable to assume it’s not for the public good. According to two studies in the journal Science, the lifecycle carbon emissions resulting from the production of biofuels is greater then that for conventional fuels once land use change is taken into consideration.
The clearance of grassland releases 93 times the amount of greenhouse gas that would be saved by the fuel made annually on that land, said Joseph Fargione, lead author of the second paper, and a scientist at the Nature Conservancy. “So for the next 93 years you’re making climate change worse, just at the time when we need to be bringing down carbon emissions.”