Anybody besides me get tired of all the BS the “experts” throw out at us especially as it pertains to the environment and their very slanted view of how it should be??????

I just came across this article with the blaring headline that “BIOFUEL THREATENS WATER SUPPLIES …..Gallon of BIOFUEL may require up to more than 2,100 gallons of water”

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30158655/

Sounds pretty impressive and a little scary until you start crunching some numbers. I got curious and started crunching some numbers. I used where I grew up at in the mid west and searched out some data. Average precipitation for that area is just under 3 foot per year of course sometimes more sometimes less. What that means is that for EVERY acre of ground in the area, mother nature pours 977,553 gallons (or just short of a million gallons) on EVRY acre every year.

Very little of that water is actually tied up in the crops, grass and weeds, the majority of it actually runs off or is re-evaporated into humidity to be rained again. In other words that rain water is re-cycled over and over again. Even the water actually ties up in a gallon of biofuel will eventually be released as water vapor during combustion. Something will be growing on that land regardless….and needs to be if nothing else than for the sake of erosion control.


Now I’ve never been accused of being the smartest guy and maybe I’m missing something, but if your going to tell me something, I’d prefer to hear the complete story.

By the way I’d like a refund on all the tax dollars that went to fund this “study”.