Reply #8: Um...um...maybe you haven't heard about the European renewable portfolio standards.

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What's your claim here, that you haven't sat around here calling for more and more and more palm oil production?

"Just 3%?" In all this "percent" talk have you ever considered that you are calling for the increase in the use of palm oil in engines.

Which "percent" would you like to take away to put in engines, food or pharmaceuticals?

Three percent of the tigers would be about 8 of them.

I note with disgust that the anti-nuke "renewables will save us" religion is claiming we're just getting started with renewable fuels.

This may come as a surprise to people who couldn't care about Orangatans, Sumatran Tigers, Asian elephants and the like, but there are activists now working to plead with Europe to abandon the RPS pledge. These activists hate the car culture, almost as much as I do.

How's the fight with the cook going over the organic shredded coconut going by the way? Maybe you could get one of the other servants to overrule him or her.

I will post, when I have time, a separate thread on the activist appeal for Germany and friends to stop the RPS before the last acre of Indonesian rain forest is gone. It's a fascinating.

All renewable fantasies sound great until you go to actually try them out.