47 Replies to ““Turn Food Into Fuel””

  1. Kate
    I am totally into growimg/forming and using my own asswipe…..does this make me ecologically friendly or carbon neutral?
    Syncro

  3. That is probably the most intelligent thing I have ever read on this blog (the thing about not buying Time, not the asswipe thing)

  5. Uh, I’m pretty sure they weren’t actually saying that you should do that. Did you read the rest of the paragraph?

  7. Well, I already use cold water and the powers that be have decided that my neighbourhood must do without clotheslines because they are unsightly.
    Also have two teenage children – there are no small loads.

  8. I’m waiting for leadership and example from our elites on this global warming thing… still waiting… still..

  9. Have you ever been clotheslined?? Anybody? Me,I’ve been busy stocking the’bunker’..complete with Time Warner mags…they’re the new Sear’s catalogues!

  10. I must have missed something. I’ve always been lead to believe that WOOL came from sheep. Boy that global warming has really screwed things up!

  11. I like the sheep grown cotton best it is so less itchy than the plant variety. Now please excuse me while I go dig some potatoes from the cow I have in the back yard.

  13. I always supposed that the best source of biofuel is humans. Turning humans into fuel also gets rid of overpopulation. ‘Killing’ two bugs up the ass of the left with one stone. Let’s get our bio-Malthusian on.

  15. And AL GORE can use planes that are powered by a rubberband and use the kind of car they used on THE FLITSONES just stick your feet down and start running and TIME is still a liberal rag and not worth reading or linning a birds cage with AND DONT EVERN CONSITER LINNING MY CAGE WITH IT OR I,LL GET VIOLENT SQUAWK SQUAWK

  16. If hot vs. warm water makes a difference, think of all the hot coffee drunk by climate change affirmers. Come on! We can all show our commitment to The Cause by switching to lukewarm coffee — the luker the better. Starbucks could even start a campaign: “unless you specify otherwise, we’ll serve your coffee lukewarm.”
    Or, maybe the government could put a tax on hot coffee — the hotter the coffee, the bigger the tax. I’m just getting warmed up, if you’ll excuse the expression.
    Maybe climate change deniers (is it den-I-ers or den-ee-ays?), as an act of subversion, could start drinking lukewarm coffee, and then show up at events and take climate change affirmers to task for their hot coffee C02 emissions.
    Giving up hot coffee. That would make them squirm! (And I doubt that squirming is a carbon-neutral activity).

  17. Been hearing good things about whalanol.
    “The whalanol is a natural and renewable fuel additive that will be capable of working in any engine. It is also energy-efficient as it burns three times as efficiently as gasoline. According to the commission there could be no energy-source more environmentally friendly than whale-based petroleum additives.”

  18. If enough Canadians decide they want to be subsistence farmers and force the Kyoto scheme on the rest of us – these tips might come in handy.

  20. “Stop buying Time-Warner magazines. They’re printed on paper and moved by truck.”
    Right on, Kate.
    And maybe the Time-Warner guys could get themselves some new glasses: They can’t see how ironic and hypocritical–and just plain dumb–their Survival Guide is, given their media empire and all the resources it gobbles up?

  21. You could make your own clothes with needle and thread using 100% organic wool grown from plants tended by you own hands and fertilized by the sheep you raised on a Whole Foods diet.

  22. I have not had a sub to ANY paper in a long, long time. Not even single issues anymore. In the past, Time, Wpg Free Press, Macleans, Scientific American, Country Guide, Western Producer. At times, all 6 at once for 20 yrs.
    Does anyone out there know how to calculate the tree-savings ??
    Cotton Sheep. OMG, are those journos dumb, or what !!

  23. I’m starting to like the way this thread is going. The media are falling for these scaremongers. The truth is buried – not such bad news does not sell papers.
    Well – as Kate says papers take paper and energy to print them and lots orf trucks to move them around and then the other paper delivery people have their little trucks and then there is all that steel in those unsightly paper boxes on the corner…newspapers must be a huge drain on energy.
    Then there are the recycling and land fill problems. Big problems all that paper . What a waste.
    So let us start spreading the word that buying paper newspapers is bad bad bad for the earth.
    If you buy any kind of paper media you are contributing to wiping out the polar bears!
    Start cancelling those subscriptions!

  24. I am going to start selling “newspaper credits”.
    I WILL MAKE A SUITCASE FULL OF $$$$$ ON THIS ONE

  27. And the award for the most ludicrous attempt at taking things out of context goes to Small Dead Animals for-
    “You could make your own clothes with needle and thread using 100% organic cotton sheared from sheep you raised on a Whole Foods diet…”
    Just one of the helpful tips from Time magazine’s Global Warming Survival Guide.

  28. Get off the Foods and vedges conversion to impractical ICE fuels.
    The internal combustion engine is 19th century obsolete and feeds Big oil and Big Auto profits.
    You can buy a $13K EV right now that goes 40 miles between charges and runs on 6 gellcell 12 volt batteries. No rocket science involved.
    The money you save on gas will pay for weekend trips out of town in the Caddy. = TG

  31. Years ago, dryer sales were not going well in Arizona and CA. A cousin visited from Arizona, and was suprised my boys did not have faded jeans and tshirts. Told her since getting my dryer clothes did not fade, get ripped by the dog, twisted in the wind etc. She went home and bought one, and spread the story. A smart ad man started to use that in ads for dryers, no more back aches, ripped or faded clothes, frozen fingers, etc.
    There is an art to hanging clothes on a line, and I don’t think the young women today could handle it. Course, all that weight lifting would help to keep the weight off. Never again, will a clothes line be one of my wants.

  33. I’m going to buy stock in the rubber boot/velcro glove companies.I’m sure with the sudden interest in raising ones own sheep,this will be a wise investment.

  34. I’m allergic to laundry … I get all itchy even thinking about it. I do like clean, and sometimes pressed, clothes. I am willing to project climate changes for 100 years for anyone that wants to take a load of laundry and wash my SUV.

  35. Why are you people not panic stricken ? Don’t you realize that some sneaky mad scientist has biologicaly altered sheep by introducing a gene from a cotton plant? What if they get crossed somehow with some other animal or plant when they come in heat? Maybe they won’t be able to have a heat cycle. What if they have to flower to reproduce? Don’t you people care about any thing? Don’t just sit there, WORRY!!

  36. A lot of cities and bigger towns are banning clotheslines because they look “shabby”.
    I bet the politico snobs that dreamt that up drive (taxpayer funded) SUV’s.

  37. Time Magazine somehow neglects to mention that the simplest and most efficient way to reduce the C02 produced each time you do your laundry is with a single pistol shot to the temple.
    It doesn’t hurt at all, and it’s good for the earth.
    If we could just kill the oceans…

  38. Its hard to believe the list is anything but tongue-in-cheek (or just California-chic). For example, number 33:
    “33. Rearrange the Heavens and the Earth”
    “…Geoengineering, as the field is called, involves rearranging the environment on a planetary scale. The best-known idea involves the so-called space mirrors. Roger Angel, an astronomer at the University of Arizona, suggests putting trillions of small, ultra-thin lenses into orbit, enough to form a cylindrical cloud with a diameter half the size of the Earth’s equator and a length of 60,000 miles. … Implementing this plan would be no mean feat: the mirrors would collectively weigh 20 million tons and cost trillions of dollars. And to get all those lenses into orbit, we’d have to launch rockets every five minutes for 10 years.”
    …the president of the prestigious National Academy of Sciences recommended exploring geoengineering options last year. That these far-out ideas are getting a serious hearing in mainstream science is a measure of how desperate the battle against climate change is becoming.”
    I’d say “desperate” is not the word they’re looking for. “Ridiculous”, “stupid”, “idiotic” are some of the richer and more descriptive words in the language that might be more appropriate.
    Like the suggestion to buy local produce… All of the farmland in my neighbourhood now has 2500 sq ft houses on 3500 sq ft lots – doesn’t leave much room for the broccoli. Maybe fluorescent lights in one of the three car garages will do for local “hothouse” veggies…

  42. cancil your subcriptions to TIME,NEWSWEEK,U.S. NEWS AND WORLD REPORT, and all the enviromentalist poppycock propeganda and the liberal rags their all printed on paper use electric presses and need motorized transportation

  43. You’re right spurwing. An ‘I’m paper free’ campaign would kill off the Liberal press in no time. It would be fitting to see their shilling for climate change come back and bite them in the ass.

  44. If I move from my acreage home in Alberta to the high rise in New York, where will I be able to plant my carbon gobbling bamboo fence?
    I say just go with plan B as outlined in 33.
    The carbon budget idea is interesting too; I’m sure Kalahari bushmen would appreciate an allowance equal to that of residents of rural north central Alberta.

  45. This stuff is so jejeune it is beyond belief. My kid could come up with something better.
    I liked this one:
    “Recent studies have shown that trees in temperate latitudes—including most of the U.S.—actually have a net warming effect on the climate. The heat that dark leaves absorb outweighs the carbon they soak up.”
    The obvious solution is to cut down all of the remaining Ontario and BC boreal forest.
    Furthermore although I should go and get some bamboo for my back yard, I’m not sure I can plant it yet seeing as everything is well frozen still here in Calgary (where global warming is raging).

  46. Speaking of sheep. The Liberals have only just realized that there is another use for sheep…wool.

  47. And Ross, where there is wool, you know that you’re going to find Liberals who will start fleecing!

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