April 8, 2007

• Damned If You Do, and Damned If You Don’t
  
  I read a leftover newspaper at Whataburger tonight, and in it was an article about our neighbor New Mexico. We get all sorts of weird illnesses transferred in from that part of the country. But that aside, this article was talking about how residents of a certain New Mexico town are objecting to the building of an ethanol plant.
  
  “What’s wrong with that?” my husband asked. After all, New Mexico is predominantly Democratic, and don’t Democrats (*unlike Republicans, eh?) support the renewable biofuel rush? Apparently not. One man was quoted as saying that he would move away, if the ethanol plant were built. What is he worried about? “Emissions.”
  
  Everyone wants to get away from fossil fuel use, but no one wants to put ideas into action. Why? Because they’re worried about “emissions.”  (If you don’t breathe out, you can reduce the CO₂-emissions in the environment even more, you know.)  So, frozen between continuing to use fossil fuels, and sparing the environment from “emissions,” environmentally-conscious citizens choose to not do anything. 
  
  Deer in headlights.

  I’m glad I don’t live in eastern New Mexico, because apparently the only acceptable way to make a living is to open a casino.
  
  

  http://www.eia.doe.gov/kids/energyfacts/sources/renewable/ethanol.html

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