Bio fuel for thought- the 1970s and welcome to it

By Steve Orme on Jan 22, 08 01:51 PM

To be frank, I’m getting a bit fed up with people running around like headless Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall chickens finding a reason not to use any fuel source whatsoever.
If we don’t go nuclear or fossil there is little chance windmills and waterwheels will ever provide enough to keep us all warm. And we will need to be warm won’t we when the colossus that is mankind has reversed climate change?

Latest is a cluckle of MPs saying bio fuels just will not do because they may be destroying rain forest and causing food shortages in poor nations.
I can’t be bothered debating where this clap-trap comes from, especially as the next generation, the one that will likely make the fuel mainstream, will likely come from algae. And the last time I looked there was no such thing as rain algae and not many people were eating it, either.
The truth is we would not be in this situation if the whole issue of reducing petrol dependency had not been surrounded in a Dad’s army-style panic.
But then when all is said and done, the driving force was not really the environment for most Swampy types. It was class struggle, hatred of ownership and the bitter, twisted politics of the socialist 70s and 80s. The debate is being driven by people who are nothing but collectivists in rainbow T-shirts.
And politicians are terrified of them.