daveman
Diamond Member
I knew you wounldn't get it. But only because you're stupid.So Gulf Oil is killing way more of the Gulf than ethanol but somehow you oil boys claim ethanol is bad?
You do know that Big Oil has bought & paid for politicians for the last 100 years don't you? Big Oil has also bought & paid for the media at least since the 1970's. Who do you think paid for & built NBC's Rockefeller Plaza? Who do you think built The World Trade Center? Who's Oil Companies do you think the US Military defends in foreign countries?
No-Till Corn Farming does not contribute to the Gulf Dead Zone! No-Till Farming is on the rise. Why don't you get the EPA to mandate No-Till Farming instead of blaming the ethanol industry for the DESTRUCTION OF THE GULF BY THE BIG OIL COMPANIES?
The oil spill was an accident. Flushing agrichemicals into the Gulf is deliberate.
You know the danger and the effects. But you still support it.
And no-till farming has nothing to do with the ethanol-caused dead zone in the Gulf. It's the run-off from corn farming that's causing it. And do you know what that run-off is from? Agrichemicals. And do you know what agrichemicals are made from?
Petroleum.
So: Ethanol production is flushing petrochemicals into the Gulf where it's killing marine life.
And you support it.
What makes you better than the BP officials you hate?
Nothing.
You are a Big Oil Idiot. You know absolutely nothing about Farming, No-Till Farming, World Food Production or Ethanol Production.
Agrichemicals in the rivers increases algae blooms in the Gulf. That is an increase in marine life. Algae makes the Crude Oil in the Gulf that oil companies are extracting. Why don't you filter the algae out of the river & squeeze crude oil out of that?
No-Till Farming greatly reduces soil erosion & the run-off of agrichemicals into rivers. This also reduces the need for farmers to apply agrichemicals. No-Till Farming greatly reduces the use of Diesel Fuel & Agrichemicals.
You Big Ethanol shills are funny. You';re saying agricultural runoff is beneficial? Then why are you advocating no-till farming to reduce runoff?
I'll give you a minute to consider this. I can tell you haven't given this any thought.
Nevertheless, ag runoff is anything but harmless:
he year was 2000 and states up and down the Mississippi River, spurred by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, were coming to grips with one of Americas most vexing water quality challenges: the fertilizer runoff from Midwestern farm fields flowing hundreds of miles south to the Gulf of Mexico.
A mass of oxygen-deprived water had expanded in 1999 to a then-record 7,700 square miles, bigger than Connecticut and approaching the size of New Hampshire or Vermont. Farm chemicals from the Midwest and elsewhere were blamed in scientific studies for triggering much of the vast algae growth showing up along the Louisiana and Texas coasts and in so doing consuming oxygen.
Aquatic creatures fled or died and shrimpers went out of business.
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Late last month, a panel of independent scientists convened by the EPA issued its preliminary findings, affirming much of what had been known a decade ago _ and reaching the strong conclusion that increased nutrient loads have led to hypoxia, the low-oxygen condition causing problems in the Gulf.
A mass of oxygen-deprived water had expanded in 1999 to a then-record 7,700 square miles, bigger than Connecticut and approaching the size of New Hampshire or Vermont. Farm chemicals from the Midwest and elsewhere were blamed in scientific studies for triggering much of the vast algae growth showing up along the Louisiana and Texas coasts and in so doing consuming oxygen.
Aquatic creatures fled or died and shrimpers went out of business.
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Late last month, a panel of independent scientists convened by the EPA issued its preliminary findings, affirming much of what had been known a decade ago _ and reaching the strong conclusion that increased nutrient loads have led to hypoxia, the low-oxygen condition causing problems in the Gulf.
A 2008 study found over 400 Dead Zones around the world, and the Gulf of Mexico's is one of the largest. Snaking along the Louisiana and Texas coasts, the expanding Gulf Dead Zone has drastically reduced seafood stocks and pushed fishers further out to sea.
The primary culprit? Nitrate-laced runoff from agricultural operations along the Mississippi River, which eventually drain into Gulf waters. One study found that 51% of nitrogen load in the Mississippi was from commercial fertilizer, with livestock manure, human sewage and runoff from other crops contributing to the mix.
The primary culprit? Nitrate-laced runoff from agricultural operations along the Mississippi River, which eventually drain into Gulf waters. One study found that 51% of nitrogen load in the Mississippi was from commercial fertilizer, with livestock manure, human sewage and runoff from other crops contributing to the mix.
Congratulations. You support killing the Gulf.
