Re: [Biofuel] Big Pharma, like Big Oil, owns Congress

[Mike Weaver]

What's the difference between methamphetimine and Adderall?  The name 
and advertising budget...


Kirk McLoren wrote:

>
>
>
>   US Congress: "Under the Influence" of Big Pharma
>
> "In all, at least 15 congressional staffers, congressmen and
> federal officials left to go to work for the pharmaceutical
> industry, whose profits were increased by several billion dollars.
> "I mean, they - they have unlimited resources. Unlimited,"
> [Congressman] Burton says. "And when they push real hard to get
> something accomplished in the Congress of the United States, they
> can get it done." In January, one of the first things the new
> Democratic House of Representatives did was to make it mandatory
> for Medicare to negotiate lower prices with the drug companies.
> But a similar measure was blocked in the Senate, due in part to
> the efforts of the drug lobby." - Steve Kroft, "60 Minutes," CBS
> News
> ,
> July 29, 2007
>
>
> 
> Moody friends. Drama queens. Your life? Nope! - their life, your story.
> Play Sims Stories at Yahoo! Games. 
> 
>
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[Biofuel] [Fwd: 40 MPG Weekly Update - U.S.: Leader in Chilled Glove Box Technology - 08/15/07]

[Mike Weaver]

Strange but true




  WEEKLY UPDATE

*U.S.: LEADER IN CHILLED GLOVE BOX TECHNOLOGY*

*August 15, 2007:* The United States may be lagging the rest of the 
world when it comes to vehicle fuel-efficiency innovation ... but we are 
No. 1 when it comes to chilled glove box technology.  As op-ed writer 
Bilal Zuberi points out in the Boston Globe 
:  "Clearly, the barrier to 
improving US fuel economy is not technological; the real obstacle is 
lack of political will. Automakers are demonstrating a remarkable 
ability to resist any changes in mileage standards, and instead they are 
producing larger and heavier cars with unnecessary amenities, such as 
chilled glove boxes. A better way to improve fuel economy would be for 
the government to let market forces do the work, which is what Europe 
has done so successfully over the past few decades." ... Would 
innovation-averse Detroit automakers prefer to see Congress impose a 
more than 50-cent gas tax increase on U.S. consumers, rather than 
improving federal fuel-efficiency standards for vehicles? 
 ... Coming soon to an auto 
dealer near you:  the Smart Car, which "combines a reasonable price, 
less than $12,000 for a base model, excellent gasoline mileage, 40 
mpg-plus combined city-highway, wrapped in a steel cage-like frame with 
the roominess of its cousin, the Mercedes E-Class." 
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Re: [Biofuel] B-99 in my gas tank...

[Mike Weaver]

Also works well as a paint thinner/cleaner

Keith Addison wrote:

>Hello George
>
>  
>
>>A new employee of mine mistakenly put 2 gallons of B99 in the gasoline tank
>>for a small gas-powered reefer unit on our Isuzu NPR.  I'm guessing the mix
>>is now 8 gallons gasoline to 2 gallons BioDiesel.  Do I need to drain the
>>tank, or will it run through OK?
>>
>>Thanks for the input.
>>
>>George
>>www.seabreezefarm.net
>>Vashon Island, WA USA
>>
>>
>
>http://journeytoforever.org/biodiesel_make2.html#gas
>Biodiesel in gasoline engines
>
>Scroll down to "Biodiesel in 4-stroke gasoline engines".
>
>HTH
>
>Best
>
>Keith
>
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Re: [Biofuel] U.S. sends mixed message on climate

[Mike Weaver]

Yeah, you guys do it, and let us know how it turns out...

Keith Addison wrote:

>http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/front/la-na-emissions12aug12, 
>1,523570,full.story?coll=la-headlines-frontpage&ctrack=1&cset=true
>U.S. sends mixed message on climate
>As Bush calls on developing nations to curb CO2, two federally 
>controlled agencies are enabling them to emit more.
>
>By Judy Pasternak, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
>August 12, 2007
>
>WASHINGTON -- At the Group of 8 summit of world leaders in June, 
>President Bush repeated his calls for developing nations to curb 
>their emissions of greenhouse gases. Without their cooperation, he 
>said, drastic measures in the United States to battle climate change 
>would make little sense.
>
>"We all can make major strides, and yet there won't be a reduction 
>until China and India are participants," he told reporters.
>
>But just weeks earlier, the U.S. government had pledged to help 
>finance one of the world's most advanced oil refineries, taking shape 
>in Jamnagar, India. The facility, to be completed by December 2008, 
>will not only produce petroleum products, it will annually emit 
>nearly 9 million metric tons of carbon dioxide -- the major 
>contributor to global warming -- into the atmosphere.
>
>That estimate comes from the U.S. Export-Import Bank, which announced 
>$500 million in loan guarantees for the project in May. And those 
>figures do not take into account the emissions from the vehicles that 
>will burn the giant refinery's gasoline, the planes that will fly on 
>its jet fuel or the stoves that use its propane and kerosene.
>
>The Jamnagar refinery is one of hundreds of fossil-fuel projects 
>built with the help of U.S.-controlled funding agencies. Since 1995, 
>when the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 
>agreed there was a "discernible human influence" on global warming, 
>the United States has helped finance power plants, liquefied natural 
>gas processors, oil pipelines and the like in more than 40 countries 
>-- in effect extending America's "carbon footprint" well past this 
>nation's borders.
>
>By calling for developing nations to curb their emissions while 
>simultaneously helping them emit more, "we're being hypocritical," 
>said David Waskow, international policy director for the Friends of 
>the Earth environmental group.
>
>The 73-year-old Export-Import Bank and the Overseas Private 
>Investment Corp., founded in 1971, were established to use loan 
>guarantees, insurance and other financial tools to promote U.S. 
>exports, encourage economic development in emerging markets and 
>support America's foreign policy. Between them, they say they have 
>generated nearly $470 billion in exports.
>
>But they also have been controversial, derided by critics as engaging 
>in "corporate welfare." Many firms that benefit from the agencies' 
>energy projects -- including Halliburton Co., Bechtel Corp. and Exxon 
>Mobil Corp. -- already earn huge profits.
>
>"The problem right now is that we think about India needing more 
>refinery capacity without thinking through a total energy package for 
>India, with biofuels or carbon sequestration," said Mark Helmke, a 
>senior staffer for Republicans on the Senate Foreign Relations 
>Committee. "People aren't looking at this in a holistic way. They're 
>looking at it in a scattershot way."
>
>He added: "There's a lack of White House leadership on these issues."
>
>The federal government has promoted sales of clean-energy technology 
>abroad -- indeed, the Commerce Department led 17 companies on a 
>clean-energy trade mission to China and India in April -- but that 
>effort has been dwarfed by support for fossil fuels.
>
>In 2005, more than $3 billion in financing for the international oil 
>and gas industry was provided by the Export-Import Bank and the 
>Overseas Private Investment Corp. And that does not include projects 
>funded by the World Bank Group, which is an international body that 
>is heavily influenced by its largest shareholder, the United States.
>
> From 1995 to 2006, the Ex-Im Bank and OPIC provided more than $21 
>billion in loans and loan guarantees for oil refineries, pipeline 
>projects, liquefied natural gas plants and electric power plants 
>around the world.
>
>A snapshot of the environmental impact can be seen in a sample of 
>projects subsidized in Russia, Mexico, Venezuela, Algeria, China, 
>Brazil, Turkey and India. Those 48 projects alone will be responsible 
>for at least 12 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions over 
>their lifetime, or at least 600 million metric tons annually, 
>according to a Times analysis of data provided by Friends of the 
>Earth. The organization used data from the lending agencies' records, 
>and emissions were calculated by analyst Richard Heede of Climate 
>Mitigation Services, a private Colorado firm. CO2 figures were not 
>available for more than 150 additional projects in those eight 
>countries.
>
>He

Re: [Biofuel] B-99 in my gas tank...

[Keith Addison]

Hello George

>A new employee of mine mistakenly put 2 gallons of B99 in the gasoline tank
>for a small gas-powered reefer unit on our Isuzu NPR.  I'm guessing the mix
>is now 8 gallons gasoline to 2 gallons BioDiesel.  Do I need to drain the
>tank, or will it run through OK?
>
>Thanks for the input.
>
>George
>www.seabreezefarm.net
>Vashon Island, WA USA

http://journeytoforever.org/biodiesel_make2.html#gas
Biodiesel in gasoline engines

Scroll down to "Biodiesel in 4-stroke gasoline engines".

HTH

Best

Keith


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[Biofuel] B-99 in my gas tank...

[George Page]

A new employee of mine mistakenly put 2 gallons of B99 in the gasoline tank
for a small gas-powered reefer unit on our Isuzu NPR.  I'm guessing the mix
is now 8 gallons gasoline to 2 gallons BioDiesel.  Do I need to drain the
tank, or will it run through OK?

Thanks for the input.

George
www.seabreezefarm.net
Vashon Island, WA USA


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[Biofuel] China & India: Following Our Lead ... And Our Money

[Keith Addison]

http://commonsense.ourfuture.org/china_india_following_our_lead_and_ou 
r_money?tx=3
China & India: Following Our Lead ... And Our Money
Submitted by Bill Scher on August 13, 2007 - 6:28pm.

As I've noted before, conservatives like to use China's and India's 
increasing carbon pollution as an excuse to do nothing on global 
warming, Of course, all they're doing is following our dirty lead.

But, as the Los Angeles Times reports, they're not just following our 
lead. They're following our money.


At the Group of 8 summit of world leaders in June, President Bush 
repeated his calls for developing nations to curb their emissions of 
greenhouse gases ... "We all can make major strides, and yet there 
won't be a reduction until China and India are participants," he told 
reporters.

But just weeks earlier, the U.S. government had pledged to help 
finance one of the world's most advanced oil refineries, taking shape 
in Jamnagar, India. The facility ... will annually emit nearly 9 
million metric tons of carbon dioxide -- the major contributor to 
global warming -- into the atmosphere.

This is not an isolated incident, but long-standing, short-sighted policy:


The Jamnagar refinery is one of hundreds of fossil-fuel projects 
built with the help of U.S.-controlled funding agencies. Since 1995, 
when the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 
agreed there was a "discernible human influence" on global warming, 
the United States has helped finance power plants, liquefied natural 
gas processors, oil pipelines and the like in more than 40 countries 
-- in effect extending America's "carbon footprint" well past this 
nation's borders.

...

 From 1995 to 2006, the [Export-Import] Bank and [Overseas Private 
Investment Corporation] provided more than $21 billion in loans and 
loan guarantees for oil refineries, pipeline projects, liquefied 
natural gas plants and electric power plants around the world.

A snapshot of the environmental impact can be seen in a sample of 
projects subsidized in Russia, Mexico, Venezuela, Algeria, China, 
Brazil, Turkey and India. Those 48 projects alone will be responsible 
for at least 12 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions over 
their lifetime, or at least 600 million metric tons annually, 
according to a Times analysis of data provided by Friends of the 
Earth. The organization used data from the lending agencies' records, 
and emissions were calculated by analyst Richard Heede of Climate 
Mitigation Services, a private Colorado firm. CO2 figures were not 
available for more than 150 additional projects in those eight 
countries.

Heede, who has provided research for plaintiffs suing the banks over 
their lending policies, wrote in court documents that the Ex-Im Bank 
and OPIC were responsible for more than 7% of the world's annual 
carbon dioxide emissions. In 2003, he wrote, the two investment 
funds' projects were to blame for an amount of CO2 overseas roughly 
equivalent to one-third of U.S. carbon emissions.

The latest global warming bills being crafted in the Senate seek to 
pressure China and India by threatening trade penalties.

Such a stick is sensible, if there's a carrot going along with it.

But we're not giving them carrots. We're giving them lumps of coal.


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[Biofuel] Raft of flaws found in popular carbon offsetting schemes

[Keith Addison]

http://environment.independent.co.uk/lifestyle/article2768252.ece
- Independent Online Edition > Lifestyle
15 August 2007 15:07

Raft of flaws found in popular carbon offsetting schemes

By Martin Hickman, Consumer Affairs Correspondent

Published: 14 July 2007

A television documentary has uncovered flaws in a series of carbon 
offsetting schemes intended to make good the global warming gases 
emitted by flights and other polluting activities.

An episode of Dispatches on Channel 4 on Monday entitled "The Great 
Green Smoke Screen" will show academics and environmentalists 
questioning the ethics and impact of offsetting - and suggesting that 
offsetting schemes have not been effective as claimed.

Two of the country's biggest carbon offset companies, the Carbon 
Neutral Company and Climate Care, and offsetting schemes at BA, BP 
and Sky are scrutinised by the programme.

Carbon offsetting has becoming popular in recent years as a way for 
individuals and business to mitigate the effects of emissions, for 
example from cars or planes, as publicity has grown about the threat 
and speed of climate change.

Dispatches claims that schemes run by Climate Care, and promoted by 
BA, took no account of the "multiplier" effect which increased the 
damage done by aviation fumes in the stratosphere by a factor of 
three. In other words, the schemes funded by BA passengers only 
mitigate one third of the damage that their flights cause. Climate 
Care, which uses a multiplier of two on its website, told Dispatches 
that it was unhappy about the way Britain's biggest airline ran its 
scheme.

A project funded by BP to siphon methane gas from excrement at pig 
farms in Mexico will only produce half the savings claimed on the 
company's website, which is now being amended.

In Bulgaria, Sky funds a hydro-power plant that turns water into 
low-pollution electricity but the manager, Vladislav Tsvetkov, said 
that Sky's money, though welcome, was "not required" - a view backed 
by the Bulgarian bank which lent the capital. The manager later 
retracted his comments and the Carbon Neutral Company which 
administers the offsets insisted the money had been critical in 
establishing the plant.

At Donkleywood forest in Northumberland, the Carbon Neutral Company 
said the planting of the trees helped the climate. But it emerged 
that 70 per cent of the funding came from the Forestry Commission.

The programme analysed the behaviour of the electricity suppliers 
which offer customers the opportunity to match their bills to wind 
and solar power with "green tariffs" while doing no more than meeting 
their legal obligations to buy renewable power.

Dispatches questioned whether big companies such as HSBC and Sky had 
any right to claim they were "carbon neutral" as a result of buying 
offsets to undo the effects of their pollution. Instead the programme 
hinted that more should be done to limit the polluting activity in 
the first place.

Dieter Helm, professor of energy policy at Oxford University, told 
the programme: "It's very, very fashionable for big companies who are 
actually engaged in pretty polluting activities to somehow embrace 
the slogan that they have gone carbon neutral, so we can go on 
consuming their products knowing that actually we're not damaging the 
environment. If only it was that simple.

"The idea that they can assuage their consciences by buying some 
offsets in the international market as a substitute to cleaning up 
their act - this is good perhaps PR and publicity, but substance I 
think is seriously lacking."


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[Biofuel] At World Bank, climate change isn't part of the equation

[Keith Addison]

http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/front/la-na-emitside12aug12,1 
,7427738.story?coll=la-headlines-frontpage
At World Bank, climate change isn't part of the equation

By Judy Pasternak, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer

August 12, 2007

WASHINGTON -- At the World Bank -- heavily influenced by its largest 
shareholder, the United States -- the effect of projects on climate 
change is not even calculated.

Bank environment officials pressed to account for emissions in the 
mid- to late-'90s and again in an unpublished paper in 2002, and only 
now, five years later, are attempting again.

"Our biggest obstacle has been that politically, [climate change] is 
very controversial," said Kristalina Georgieva, the bank's strategy 
and operations director for sustainable development.

In February 2006, for example, the World Bank's operating vice 
presidents gathered to discuss a draft of a progress report, 
requested by the Group of 8 leading industrialized nations, titled 
"Climate Change, Energy and Sustainable Development: Towards an 
Investment Framework." The bank executives endorsed the report, 
according to minutes obtained by the Government Accountability 
Project and authenticated by The Times.

But afterward, the summary noted, the office of then-World Bank 
President Paul D. Wolfowitz -- a President Bush appointee -- "asked 
the team to refocus the paper shifting from a climate lens mainly to 
a clean-energy lens." A note of uncertainty should be injected, a top 
Wolfowitz aide instructed: "Elaborate on the challenge of mitigating 
climate change and reducing the vulnerability to the impact of 
climate change."

"Climate change" was duly removed from the name of the paper, which 
was issued within months as "Clean Energy and Development: Towards an 
Investment Framework."

"There's very good stuff" in the plan, but it's "a hodgepodge of 
ideas," said Bruce Jenkins, policy director of the Bank Information 
Center, a private World Bank watchdog group. "The bank requires a 
much more direct action plan."

Georgieva said that against this backdrop, "it's very difficult to be 
super-effective, to shift big-time to tackle this problem."

Like the U.S. Export-Import Bank and Overseas Private Investment 
Corp., the World Bank has contributed to fossil-fuel energy projects, 
including a recent grant to help develop lignite coal mining and 
power plants in Kosovo, despite a review the bank commissioned in 
2001 that suggested phasing out oil and gas investments by 2008 and 
extending a moratorium on coal.

Calculating the emissions for each proposal is a start, Georgieva 
said: "What you measure is what you worry about. It serves as an 
example for others. It should be part of the decision process 
[though], it should not be yes and no."

Georgieva says she is optimistic that this time it will happen, given 
the recent United Nations report stating conclusively that humans are 
causing global warming. Even so, Georgieva estimates it will be at 
least two years before emissions are integrated into decision-making.

Given the urgency, she added, "we are not moving fast enough. It's 
not possible to be moving fast enough."

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[Biofuel] (no subject)

[Christopher Tan]

Hi to everyone:

 

Anyone in the Philippines interested in about a ton of glycerine cocktail.
Just haul it away and it's yours. I'm in Bulacan.

 

Best,

Chris 

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[Biofuel] Wolfowitz 'Tried to Censor World Bank on Climate Change'

[Keith Addison]

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/08/14/3149/
  - CommonDreams.org
Published on Tuesday, August 14, 2007 by the Independent/UK
Wolfowitz 'Tried to Censor World Bank on Climate Change'

by Andrew Gumbel


LOS ANGELES - The Bush administration has consistently thwarted 
efforts by the World Bank to include global warming in its 
calculations when considering whether to approve major investments in 
industry and infrastructure, according to documents made public 
through a watchdog yesterday.

On one occasion, the White House's pointman at the bank, the now 
disgraced Paul Wolfowitz, personally intervened to remove the words 
"climate change" from the title of a bank progress report and ordered 
changes to the text of the report to shift the focus away from global 
warming.

But the issue predates Mr Wolfowitz's appointment as president of the 
bank in June 2005. According to the Government Accountability Project 
(GAP), which has tracked efforts to censor debate on global warming, 
environmental specialists at the World Bank tried unsuccessfully to 
press for consideration of greenhouse-gas emissions in a paper 
written - but never published - in 2002.

It was politics that prevented the publication of that paper, 
according to one senior bank insider who spoke to the Los Angeles 
Times, and politics that has been the principal obstacle to progress 
since. Only now, with the Bush administration on the ropes 
politically and the scientific evidence for global warming reaching 
such critical mass that even President George Bush has been forced to 
acknowledge its reality, are those same bank officials trying again 
to put the issue on the agenda. "Our biggest obstacle has been that 
politically, [climate change] is very controversial," Kristalina 
Georgieva, the bank's strategy and operations director for 
sustainable development, told the LA Times.

She said that, even under the best of circumstances, it will be at 
least two years before the bank starts measuring the impact of fossil 
fuel-related projects on the planet's health. "We are not moving fast 
enough," she added. "It's not possible to be moving fast enough."

The GAP has uncovered evidence of one striking instance of Bush 
administration censorship. In 2006, the bank's vice presidents 
responded to a request from the Group of Eight industrialised 
countries and commissioned a draft report entitled Climate Change, 
Energy and Sustainable Development: Towards an Investment Framework. 
They endorsed the report, according to the minutes of a meeting 
obtained by the GAP.

Subsequently, however, Mr Wolfowitz's office put out a memo asking 
the team to rework the paper, "shifting from a climate lens mainly to 
a clean-energy lens". The edited paper issued a few months later was 
eventually called Clean Energy and Development: Towards an Investment 
Framework.

The World Bank has come under fire from environmental groups for a 
number of decisions, including a recent grant to develop lignite 
mining and power plants in Kosovo. Lignite - or brown coal - pollutes 
the air heavily when burnt and is generally regarded as one of the 
dirtiest fuel sources on the planet.

The investment appears to go against the bank's own policy, from 
2001, whereby it decided to try to phase out oil and gas investments 
by 2008 and to extend an existing moratorium on investments in coal 
mining.

The GAP put out a report in March detailing similar problems at other 
agencies, most notably the National Oceanic and Atmospheric 
Administration which, among other duties, tracks hurricanes and other 
extreme weather phenomena. The report cited "objectionable and 
possibly illegal restrictions on the communication of scientific 
information to the media" - including censorship of interviews and 
press releases.

More recently, the GAP has reported the Bush administration's refusal 
to consider climate change as it prepares to expand the national air 
transport system threefold over the next 20 years. A multi-agency 
group called the Next Generation Air Transportation System has simply 
ignored global warming in its past two annual reports.

Mr Wolfowitz was forced to step down in June after it emerged that he 
had given a lucrative sinecure to his girlfriend and offered her 
excessive pay rises.

© 2007 Independent News and Media Limited

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[Biofuel] U.S. sends mixed message on climate

[Keith Addison]

http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/front/la-na-emissions12aug12, 
1,523570,full.story?coll=la-headlines-frontpage&ctrack=1&cset=true
U.S. sends mixed message on climate
As Bush calls on developing nations to curb CO2, two federally 
controlled agencies are enabling them to emit more.

By Judy Pasternak, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
August 12, 2007

WASHINGTON -- At the Group of 8 summit of world leaders in June, 
President Bush repeated his calls for developing nations to curb 
their emissions of greenhouse gases. Without their cooperation, he 
said, drastic measures in the United States to battle climate change 
would make little sense.

"We all can make major strides, and yet there won't be a reduction 
until China and India are participants," he told reporters.

But just weeks earlier, the U.S. government had pledged to help 
finance one of the world's most advanced oil refineries, taking shape 
in Jamnagar, India. The facility, to be completed by December 2008, 
will not only produce petroleum products, it will annually emit 
nearly 9 million metric tons of carbon dioxide -- the major 
contributor to global warming -- into the atmosphere.

That estimate comes from the U.S. Export-Import Bank, which announced 
$500 million in loan guarantees for the project in May. And those 
figures do not take into account the emissions from the vehicles that 
will burn the giant refinery's gasoline, the planes that will fly on 
its jet fuel or the stoves that use its propane and kerosene.

The Jamnagar refinery is one of hundreds of fossil-fuel projects 
built with the help of U.S.-controlled funding agencies. Since 1995, 
when the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 
agreed there was a "discernible human influence" on global warming, 
the United States has helped finance power plants, liquefied natural 
gas processors, oil pipelines and the like in more than 40 countries 
-- in effect extending America's "carbon footprint" well past this 
nation's borders.

By calling for developing nations to curb their emissions while 
simultaneously helping them emit more, "we're being hypocritical," 
said David Waskow, international policy director for the Friends of 
the Earth environmental group.

The 73-year-old Export-Import Bank and the Overseas Private 
Investment Corp., founded in 1971, were established to use loan 
guarantees, insurance and other financial tools to promote U.S. 
exports, encourage economic development in emerging markets and 
support America's foreign policy. Between them, they say they have 
generated nearly $470 billion in exports.

But they also have been controversial, derided by critics as engaging 
in "corporate welfare." Many firms that benefit from the agencies' 
energy projects -- including Halliburton Co., Bechtel Corp. and Exxon 
Mobil Corp. -- already earn huge profits.

"The problem right now is that we think about India needing more 
refinery capacity without thinking through a total energy package for 
India, with biofuels or carbon sequestration," said Mark Helmke, a 
senior staffer for Republicans on the Senate Foreign Relations 
Committee. "People aren't looking at this in a holistic way. They're 
looking at it in a scattershot way."

He added: "There's a lack of White House leadership on these issues."

The federal government has promoted sales of clean-energy technology 
abroad -- indeed, the Commerce Department led 17 companies on a 
clean-energy trade mission to China and India in April -- but that 
effort has been dwarfed by support for fossil fuels.

In 2005, more than $3 billion in financing for the international oil 
and gas industry was provided by the Export-Import Bank and the 
Overseas Private Investment Corp. And that does not include projects 
funded by the World Bank Group, which is an international body that 
is heavily influenced by its largest shareholder, the United States.

 From 1995 to 2006, the Ex-Im Bank and OPIC provided more than $21 
billion in loans and loan guarantees for oil refineries, pipeline 
projects, liquefied natural gas plants and electric power plants 
around the world.

A snapshot of the environmental impact can be seen in a sample of 
projects subsidized in Russia, Mexico, Venezuela, Algeria, China, 
Brazil, Turkey and India. Those 48 projects alone will be responsible 
for at least 12 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions over 
their lifetime, or at least 600 million metric tons annually, 
according to a Times analysis of data provided by Friends of the 
Earth. The organization used data from the lending agencies' records, 
and emissions were calculated by analyst Richard Heede of Climate 
Mitigation Services, a private Colorado firm. CO2 figures were not 
available for more than 150 additional projects in those eight 
countries.

Heede, who has provided research for plaintiffs suing the banks over 
their lending policies, wrote in court documents that the Ex-Im Bank 
and OPIC were responsible for more tha

[Biofuel] Big Pharma, like Big Oil, owns Congress

[Kirk McLoren]

  

  US Congress: "Under the Influence" of Big Pharma 
  
"In all, at least 15 congressional staffers, congressmen and federal officials 
left to go to work for the pharmaceutical industry, whose profits were 
increased by several billion dollars. "I mean, they - they have unlimited 
resources. Unlimited," [Congressman] Burton says. "And when they push real hard 
to get something accomplished in the Congress of the United States, they can 
get it done." In January, one of the first things the new Democratic House of 
Representatives did was to make it mandatory for Medicare to negotiate lower 
prices with the drug companies. But a similar measure was blocked in the 
Senate, due in part to the efforts of the drug lobby." - Steve Kroft, "60 
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Re: [Biofuel] Biodiesel in V6 diesel engine

[Zeke Yewdall]

Hmmm.  I forgot about the old detroit diesels.  Here in the US, the
diesel sprinter vans that I've seen use an inline 6 instead of a V6.

I vaguely remember a 6 cylinder 4.3 liter version of the early 80's GM
5.7 liter diesel but alot of people don't consider those suitable
for running diesel in, let alone biodiesel.

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>  VW, Audi, BMW and Mercedes all have a V6 diesel. If you are driving a
> fairly new Dodge sprinter (here in Europe known as the Mercedes Sprinter) it
> is possible to order a V6 diesel.
>
> Just my 2 cents worth.
>
> Arden
>
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> > Ummm. I don't know anyone who makes a V-6 diesel engine. What's it
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Re: [Biofuel] Biodiesel in V6 diesel engine

[Arden Norder]

VW, Audi, BMW and Mercedes all have a V6 diesel. If you are driving a fairly new Dodge sprinter (here in Europe known as the Mercedes Sprinter) it is possible to order a V6 diesel.Just my 2 cents worth.ArdenOn Aug 15, 2007 02:38 AM, Zeke Yewdall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> Ummm.  I don't know anyone who makes a V-6 diesel engine.  What's it> in, how old is it, and who manufactured it.> > On 8/14/07, fox mulder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> > Hello all,> > Has any had experience with using Biodiesel in V6> > diesel engine? If so, is there any adverse effect?> > fox> >> >> >   ___> > Want ideas for reducing your carbon footprint? Visit Yahoo! For Good  http://uk.promotions.yahoo.com/forgood/environment.html> >> > ___> > Biofuel mailing list> > Biofuel@sustainablelists.org> > http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org> >> > Biofuel at Journey to Forever:> > http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html> >> > Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages):> > http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/> >> >> > ___> Biofuel mailing list> Biofuel@sustainablelists.org> http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org> > Biofuel at Journey to Forever:> http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html> > Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages):> http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/> 



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Re: [Biofuel] $1-billion worth of water pouring out of leaking lines - Niagara Falls Review - 2007.07.12

[Doug Younker]

Approaching comparing apple to oranges here, so I have to agree with 
Kirk.  The loss associated with the transportation of electrical power 
are known expected loss, loss that little can be done to prevent.  The 
loss of water in the transportation of the water in this example is due 
to the deterioration of the transporting equipment.  Again expected, but 
tolerated until the cost of loss nears the cost of repairs or 
replacement, just SOP.
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Kirk McLoren wrote:
> yes, but they represent reasonable engineering. The water mains are 
> deferred maintenance. A different kind of engineering I suppose.
> 
> */Paul S Cantrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>/* wrote:
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> Funny thing, that's not funny is, about 50% of the energy contained in
> coal makes it to the power outlet.
> 
> The rest is lost to heat loss, line losses and transformer losses.

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