Old Rocks
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What is undeniable is that you are blaming a problem that Conservatives created on the Liberals.
President Bush | Ethanol | Promote Use
A call for less gasoline consumption
Bush is also calling for Americans to slash gasoline consumption by up to 20 percent by 2017.
Bush envisions the goal being achieved primarily through a sharp escalation in the amount of ethanol and other alternative fuels that the federal government mandates must be produced. The rest would come from raising fuel economy standards for passenger cars, Joel Kaplan, White House deputy chief of staff, said in advance of Bush's Tuesday night speech to a joint session of Congress.
The president is proposing to set the amount of ethanol and other alternative fuels to be blended into the fuel supply at 35 billion gallons by 2017, up from 7.5 billion gallons in 2012. He also wants to expand the standard to include not just ethanol but a wide range of oil alternatives, such as biodiesel, methanol, butanol and hydrogen, Kaplan said
The land would be used for agriculture regardless of what the end product is. Even if not used for Ethanol we would export it, as basic foodstuffs is one of our current prime exports, and there are plenty of buyers for it.
The hypoxic region is a natural phenomenon, that has been exacerbated by human activity. The first step towards control is to get nitrogen removal processes onto your point sources, such as wastewater plants. After that the next would be attempts to treat runnoff from your higher nitrogen agricultural sources, via some sort of stormwater treatment.
In all honesty a 1-2 degree increase in temperature does not radically impact Dissolved oxygen capacity, or biological activitry. The limiting factor is excess nitrogen in the water, as well as possible excess phosphorous.
We have began to get hypoxic zones off of the coast of Oregon and Washington, without the nitrogen from agriculture.
Hypoxia | PISCO
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