Comments on: If McCain cares about the environment, why does he oppose renewable energy? http://make-energy.net/uncategorized/if-mccain-cares-about-the-environment-why-does-he-oppose-renewable-energy Thu, 22 Jul 2010 18:32:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: aesgaims http://make-energy.net/uncategorized/if-mccain-cares-about-the-environment-why-does-he-oppose-renewable-energy/comment-page-1#comment-1701 aesgaims Thu, 18 Feb 2010 15:28:14 +0000 http://make-energy.net/uncategorized/if-mccain-cares-about-the-environment-why-does-he-oppose-renewable-energy#comment-1701 I don't buy into McCain's claim at all, McCain has absolutely no solid history of supporting truly clean energy sources. I agree with all of the sources that you have selected pointing to the fact that John S. McCain does not really care about the environment except to get votes. It is clearly the trend for politicians to say that they care about the environment in order to win, if any politician runs on a policy that completely ignores the environment they will surely lose. McCain's positions are for show and are only because this is an election year. There is one thing that I disagree with that you said, it is that bio-energy is a clean energy source. Bio energy is only a clean energy source when it comes from our waste products, such as vegetable oil from restaurants or biological waste generated from food or other sources. If we go and take corn and turn that into fuel, we are reducing the amount of food available to the world as well was creating more pollutants such as fertilizer and pesticides in order to grow enough corn to feed our fuel needs as well as the world. If you make the calculation for the conversion of all of the corn we produce in the United States into ethanol, we would only be able to cover 1/5 of our needs for transportation, this does not even cover for our needs in electricity generation. The calculation: 13000000000 bushels of corn produced every year 2.85gal ethanol per bushel 37050000000 gallons of ethanol a year 210435275000 motor gasoline used in the United states each year 37050000000/210435275000 = .17 -> 17% of transportation needs met this is under the false assumption that ethanol is just as efficient or even more efficient than gasoline. I don’t buy into McCain’s claim at all, McCain has absolutely no solid history of supporting truly clean energy sources. I agree with all of the sources that you have selected pointing to the fact that John S. McCain does not really care about the environment except to get votes. It is clearly the trend for politicians to say that they care about the environment in order to win, if any politician runs on a policy that completely ignores the environment they will surely lose. McCain’s positions are for show and are only because this is an election year.

There is one thing that I disagree with that you said, it is that bio-energy is a clean energy source. Bio energy is only a clean energy source when it comes from our waste products, such as vegetable oil from restaurants or biological waste generated from food or other sources. If we go and take corn and turn that into fuel, we are reducing the amount of food available to the world as well was creating more pollutants such as fertilizer and pesticides in order to grow enough corn to feed our fuel needs as well as the world. If you make the calculation for the conversion of all of the corn we produce in the United States into ethanol, we would only be able to cover 1/5 of our needs for transportation, this does not even cover for our needs in electricity generation.

The calculation:
13000000000 bushels of corn produced every year
2.85gal ethanol per bushel
37050000000 gallons of ethanol a year
210435275000 motor gasoline used in the United states each year
37050000000/210435275000 = .17 -> 17% of transportation needs met
this is under the false assumption that ethanol is just as efficient or even more efficient than gasoline.

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