Green | September 09, 2010 | 13 comments

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source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upTCSSkxlxE&feature=player_embedded

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This documentary talks about getting America off oil and on biodiesel.
Josh Tickell, (activist, environmentalist and the director of this film), promotes sustainability, health and green living.
He examines our dependence on oil, its monopoly and its influential power on our politics through lobbyism.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upTCSSkxlxE&feature=player_embedded

He also mentions the Iraq War as driven by the oil and the 9/11 tragedy that acted as a catalytic event for it.

He wants Biodiesel that comes from algae, from trees, garbage, cooked oil, solar and wind power to be the main source of energy.

He mentions the argument that biodiesel and ethanol, respectively coming from soy and corn, would compete with our food sources leading to food shortages and raising prices, therefore he suggests biodiesel that comes from algae farms instead which should harm no one.

That is correct and I couldn't agree more with him but what he does not mention is the other huge issue with these food crops and that is GMO.
Genetically engineered plants like corn, soy and canola, are one of the most terrible threats to our humanity and planet and that should be the first reason to be mentioned to dismiss this kind of biodiesel.
Companies like Monsanto are certainly expanding their power trying to push this false alternative energy.

Also, he never mentions HEMP as the greatest, most promising form of biofuel and also the least promoted.

I am definitely on the same page with Josh Tickell and his film when it comes to the elimination of our oil dependency and advice everyone to watch it.

A while ago, I grew tired to see temporary moratoriums and created this petition, the one petition that can change our WORLD, asking our government to eliminate oil, coal and gas altogether and forever.

The price to pay for these energy sources is too high, too many deaths, too much sickness, too much control and our Freedom and our choice as citizens and consumers is long GONE.
Take it back!

Please, sign this Petition and support alternative, safe, renewable energy sources now. http://environment.change.org/petitions/view/no_more_drill_baby_drill
No more waiting, no more killing, no more "Drill, baby, drill".

Thank you.


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13 comments // FUEL // Video

  • danitassin
    • 0
      danitassin  

    • YES Biodiesel! at least in part. Keep using fryer oil!! Keep eating french fries and chinese food. Some good can come from fast food.
      CoastalBiodieselGroup

    • 1 year ago
  • Wetdog
    • +1
      Wetdog  

    • Ethanol can be made from wood. We have been able to do it as far back as the 1890s. Before WW1, most commercial ethanol was made from wood in Germany and the US.

      Brazil makes ethanol from sugar cane. Brazil has already replaced about 50% ot their petroleum usage with ethanol.

      Biodiesel can be made from wood. Germany did it in WW2.

      Biofuels can do anything that petroleum can do. And they can be made from any kind of plant material at all.

    • 1 year ago
  • Sw3rv
  • Maeveeo
    • +4
      Maeveeo  

    • When i was Penn State U in 76 everybody had an ELECTRIC CARS why not now ? MONEY !!!!!!! Thats why every time we come up with something to get away from it Some asshole puts up Money to shut it down so they can stay rich ,,,,,,, Simple !

    • 1 year ago
  • susuru
  • danitassin
    • 0
      danitassin  
    • susuru:

      That's all great but for now alot of our power (electricity) comes from coal, especially on the east coast. To convert everything to solar and wind will take decades. Biodiesel is a great step to getting off of our oil addiction. Plus the fryer oil they use would otherwise be dumped in a land fill, so it's recycling.

    • 1 year ago
  • UtopianSky
    • +1
      UtopianSky  

    • I don't think we need biodiesel.

      There are people who have figured out how to make cars that run on water, so we don't need any of this in-between stuff.

      Just jump right toward mass-production of the water cars!

    • 1 year ago
  • Vierotchka
    • +1
      Vierotchka  
    • UtopianSky:

      Cars are not the only things that use oil. If you can figure out how to provide electricity to cities, to run factories, etc., using water, we might be able to wean ourselves from oil and then from biofuel - all industries will need to be rebuilt from scratch. That will be a huge task that will take a very long time, alas.

    • 1 year ago
  • danitassin
    • 0
      danitassin  
    • UtopianSky:

      What happens when we run out of water? The oil that is used is left over fryer oil from restaurants, that would otherwise normally be disped of in a dump. Biodiesel is a very logical as a temporay solution to a huge problem.

    • 1 year ago
  • UtopianSky
    • 0
      UtopianSky  
    • danitassin:

      What happens when we run out of water?

      You mean the substance that composes 60% of the surface of this planet, fills our atmosphere, and is in every single living thing?

      The stuff that was discovered on Mars, and the Moon, and recently even in liquid form on a star?

      The substance that is composed of two of the most common elements in the universe, Hydrogen and Oxygen?

      Did you ask what happens when we run out of water?

    • 1 year ago
  • danitassin
  • KSirys
    • +1
      KSirys  

    • "He examines our dependence on oil, its monopoly and its influential power on our politics through lobbyism." that's the reason, we are not going to leave oil... i didn't have to read the rest to know the answer...

    • 1 year ago
  • thetrimsmith
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