Dateline: May 17th, 2008.
As Seattle broke our high temperature record for this day by soaring into the 90's, The Ave. was packed with people attending the U-District Street Fair.
Here are a few slides ... (the Mormon missionaries at 1:50 were getting more than they were used to but they had a hard time looking away)...
Sunday, May 18, 2008
Sunday, May 4, 2008
Northwest Biodiesel Forum
Today was the sixth annual Northwest Biodiesel Forum, held at the Seattle Center. They had changed locations from last year, but it was easy to find.
Our Governor,Christine Gregoire was on hand to deliver the opening address and take questions from the audience.
When I was there attendance seemed a little light, but it was still early.
Outside the event protesters set up a booth claiming bio fuel was "crimes against humanity." Their reasoning is, if we use bio-mass for fuel, people will be denied food and starve.
Ok...first, petroleum really is crimes against humanity. Wars of aggression for oil. Pristine coastlines polluted. Compromised politics and dishonorable compromises. Dependance of other countries...
second, people all over the world are already being denied food. It is not for lack of food. Food is rotting, undelivered on the docks. There is no political leadership to get the food to the people who ned it. A form of genocide, but not from lack of food. So..it is not bio-fuel that is an evil "crime against humanity" but the so-called leaders of government.
third, bio-mass, as far as I know, has never claimed to be the only solution. It is part of a multi-pronged solution. Certainly there is validity to the arguement that there is not replacement level fuel for the cheap and plentiful petroleum we have built our society on. Obviously we need multiple sources, none of which will work as good as cutting back our use. Ahem. I rode my bike to the Forum. I wonder if the protesters did.
fourth, the "food shortages" line is, at this point, nothing more than a piece of propoganda foisted on us by big oil. At the moment we have a Mexican refugee crisis. Mexican farmers are flooding into the United States to find work so they can feed their families. Why? Because Monsanto and others have flooded the Mexican market with cheap and plentiful corn. If there is a shortage, maybe Monsanto can do the right thing and keep their corn in the U.S. and let the MExicans go back to work on their own farms.
Here are a couple of pictures I took at the forum, including a few clips of Governor Gregoire...
Our Governor,Christine Gregoire was on hand to deliver the opening address and take questions from the audience.
When I was there attendance seemed a little light, but it was still early.
Outside the event protesters set up a booth claiming bio fuel was "crimes against humanity." Their reasoning is, if we use bio-mass for fuel, people will be denied food and starve.
Ok...first, petroleum really is crimes against humanity. Wars of aggression for oil. Pristine coastlines polluted. Compromised politics and dishonorable compromises. Dependance of other countries...
second, people all over the world are already being denied food. It is not for lack of food. Food is rotting, undelivered on the docks. There is no political leadership to get the food to the people who ned it. A form of genocide, but not from lack of food. So..it is not bio-fuel that is an evil "crime against humanity" but the so-called leaders of government.
third, bio-mass, as far as I know, has never claimed to be the only solution. It is part of a multi-pronged solution. Certainly there is validity to the arguement that there is not replacement level fuel for the cheap and plentiful petroleum we have built our society on. Obviously we need multiple sources, none of which will work as good as cutting back our use. Ahem. I rode my bike to the Forum. I wonder if the protesters did.
fourth, the "food shortages" line is, at this point, nothing more than a piece of propoganda foisted on us by big oil. At the moment we have a Mexican refugee crisis. Mexican farmers are flooding into the United States to find work so they can feed their families. Why? Because Monsanto and others have flooded the Mexican market with cheap and plentiful corn. If there is a shortage, maybe Monsanto can do the right thing and keep their corn in the U.S. and let the MExicans go back to work on their own farms.
Here are a couple of pictures I took at the forum, including a few clips of Governor Gregoire...
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