Instead, European refineries are processing more crude oil to keep up with diesel demand and accumulating surplus gasoline that they export to the United States. That system is working because the United State has a shortage of refinery capacity, but if every country were to embark on a diesel strategy, refining would have to change radically, experts say.
NY Times
Pelosi's risky strategy to campaign this fall on the culture of corruption of the Republican Party, mostly in lieu of the Abramoff scandal and the foul stench of the Republican K-street project, has run up against a roadblock: the blatant corruption of Democrat William J. Jefferson. Why am I not surprised this happened?
So, I propose a refocus to the collusion of Big Oil and their corruption of Republicans and their nefarious influence on international policy. As that blockquote above shows, we have to import refined petroleum products from Europe to meet demand so that Big Oil can game the market for profits. Disgusting... and absolutely corrupt.
That article is about diesel but the future savior is biomass... more...
Diesel gets extremely good mileage, even for massive SUV repubmobiles. So, I wonder why there aren't diesel-hybrids?
I can guess: because there is corrupt collusion between Big Oil and the car industry, of which Dems in car industry states partake happily.
So, how do we overcome this market-driven bipartisan corruption? Depend on Nancy Pelosi? HELL NO!
WE THE PEOPLE have to hold these corrupt corporate executives responsible. And we do it by shaming them, by providing evidence like the above blockquote, day in day out, ad nauseum, until they are shamed into building more refineries and under the most stringent, environmentally advanced standards on planet earth. We must expose them, day and night, relentlessly.
It's time that the blogosphere turned their sights on the source of the corruption, away from the politicians and towards the insidious source: corporate executives in certain industries that kill, maim, and destroy our planet; those evil, corrupt ilk who make the top 1% of income earners on planet earth who will kill us all unless we stop them.
It is time we took a stand against those fucks once and for all and it begins right here at Daily Kos.
For starters, we should shame our lawmakers into imposing a harsh tax on oil producers and use that money to build refineries and most importantly, to expedite bio-mass fuels, not to be mistaken with ethanol production, into production, which is cited in this article as the wave of the future (and of which hemp is the premier source of gross biomass per acre, and especially considering that hemp doesn't deplete the soil or require pesticides like other crops).
That's where biomass comes in. By using other crops and forest waste along with the entire corn plant, not just the kernels, the Department of Energy says enough cellulosic ethanol could be produced by 2030 to lower U.S. gasoline consumption 30 percent.
Scientists at the National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research in Peoria are among those on a mission to expand ethanol beyond a grain-based fuel, working intensely on how best to break down the cellulose of biomass into sugars and complex chemicals in order to produce ethanol economically. An optimal solution might still be a decade away.
Mike Cotta, who heads the U.S. Department of Agriculture-run center in Peoria, says many technical challenges remain to be overcome. Researchers must come up with more inexpensive and environmentally viable ways of converting the polymers that the bulky biomass materials are made of into simple sugars.
But a lot has happened in recent years to move them closer to their goal, including great progress cited by Cotta in developing cheaper, more efficient enzymes to break the materials down.
"We're going to need some major breakthroughs, but once these things get in place ... it's going to happen," he said.
At Argonne National Laboratory, 25 miles southwest of Chicago, a variety of biomass-related projects are being carried out with close involvement of not only the Energy Department but large corporations such as ADM and energy group BP PLC. Teams immersed in biofuels research there for years have had their efforts not only validated but given new life by the intensified focus on high energy prices and by President Bush's call in this year's State of the Union Address for America to break its "addiction" to oil by developing alternative fuels.
"It's just been totally crazy," Seth Snyder, section leader for chemical and biological technology, said of the stepped-up demand for workshops and research information. "Everybody's interested now. ... We've been saying all along we can make a big impact, and suddenly people are saying 'Maybe these people are right.'"
AP
Damn right we're right but Big Oil wants to silence us so their insidious, evil bottom line is satified.
Do your duty Kossacks. Focus. Stand up and fight the top 1% income earners. John Edwards has it right. There are 2 Americas and it's time the rich got slapped down. Hard.