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...Face it: there's no one fuel panacea, and in the final analysis, humans will have to scale back their numbers to live within a finite-fossil-fuel (or even renewable-fuel) world. And good luck with that. William L. Seavey, Cambria, Calif...
...have been shouting into the wind for years about ethanol. Certainly, its widespread use would reduce our dependency on fossil fuel, but we would simply be burning a different - albeit renewable - source of carbon. Kevin Russell, Goolwa, South Australia...
What's more, trading pollution allowances could raise hundreds of billions of dollars. Clinton and Obama want all the allowances auctioned to the highest bidder, a position McCain would not accept. The fossil-fuel industries want them given away. Lieberman-Warner uses a mix of giveaway and auction, a seemingly fair approach but one that has split enviros--some of whom see the bill as weak. Industry is ambivalent too. The National Association of Manufacturers is dug in against the bill. A large and growing number of corporations know that a cap is inevitable, though few have come...
Face it: there's no one fuel Panacea, and in the final analysis, humans will have to scale back their numbers in order to live within a finite fossil- (or even renewable-) fuel world. And good luck with that. William L. Seavey, AMBRIA, CALIF...
...resources is not limited to simply the printing process. “There’s a lot of petrochemicals... that go into distributing these books, and then you have to recycle them,” Seidel said. “There’s a whole lot of fossil fuels that go into this and no benefit to any individual.” Harvard Resource Efficiency Program coordinator Philip W. Kreycik ’06 agreed with the proposal, saying “I can’t imagine anyone our age using [the Yellow Pages] these days...