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storks don't find and deliver finished fossil fuel products to filling stations around
the world.
And I guess these three stooges don't know about all the CO2 and other harmful
gases that are emitted in the process of defending oil around the world. I guess
they think that all the planes, and ships, and armored vehicles, and personnel
carriers run on magic non-polluting fairy dust. And then no one explained to
them that the production of all the weapons and ammunition requires energy
usage. Oh, and then there's the manufacture of all the uniforms for all the service personnel, as well as all the food and the housing. And then there are the
pollutants given off every time a shell or bomb explodes, and every time an
individual weapon is discharged. And then all emissions used by first-responder
vehicles when they are called to the scene of a related terrorist attack. And then
all the harmful emissions related to cleaning up oil disasters, not to mention the
bodies of all the dead animals killed as a result of the oil disasters.
While I'm on the subject of dead bodies, do you think that the three schlemiels
ever consider the millions of people killed in the wars waged over oil? I have a
feeling they don't.
About a day after John DeCicco and the University of Michigan published their
story, MichBio, the biosciences industry association in Michigan, issued a statement about DeCicco in which they wrote:
"It's unfortunate when scientists conduct research predicated on assumptions that lead to biased results, rather than conducting a truly independent analysis," said Stephen Rapundalo, PhD, President and CEO,
MichBio. "Moreover, the Petroleum Institute’s direct funding of the research calls into question any impartiality on the part of the research team
and hence the study’s conclusions."
"In sum, this study is an attempt by the oil industry to smear the biofuels
industry and stifle competition in the fuels market. It ignores the benefits
of Michigan's homegrown biofuels industry, and if its conclusions were to
be valid stands to hinder a potential economic driver for Michigan and the
U.S."
Moreover, Argonne National Laboratory has stated that ethanol reduces greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by an average of 34 percent compared to gasoline,
even when the highly controversial and disputed theory on Indirect Land Use
Change (ILUC) is factored into the modeling. Additionally, Argonne has found
