Closing Bell: Energy Independent Park Slope?
Until it’s time to drill, baby, drill, folks in the Slope have decided to work on their own alternative energy policy. The Park Slope Ethanol Cooperative aims “to build a station in Brooklyn and run our vehicles on 100% ethanol. Our goal is to make the fuel from locally-based sources.” Want to learn how to…
Until it’s time to drill, baby, drill, folks in the Slope have decided to work on their own alternative energy policy. The Park Slope Ethanol Cooperative aims “to build a station in Brooklyn and run our vehicles on 100% ethanol. Our goal is to make the fuel from locally-based sources.” Want to learn how to run your car (wait, if we’re really going green, we probably need to ditch the cars) on alternative fuels? Check out their meeting tomorrow night, 7:30pm at the Park Slope Food Co-op. Send them a note if you have questions.
Gassing Up for NJ. Photo by Nedward.org.
Corn ethanol is bad, SUVs are bad, big screen TVs are bad, eating meat is bad, taking showers, using paper towels, etc, etc, etc. Surpisingly (or not) the worst possible thing you can ever do to the environment is… have kids, who will, naturally, repeat this cycle of environmental destruction. I guess I don’t have much of a point to make or a solution to propose. And I think, despite of many optimists’ opinions out there, things are going to get a hell of a lot worse in the next 50 years in terms of climate change. No, we can’t just all agree to make it better. No, America isn’t capable of solving this crisis or making even minute short-term sacrifices to get potential long-term benefits. No, your absentee-landlord god won’t protect you. And neither will the-biggest-fraud-of-all-times Jesus of Nazareth.
Man I can rant! Anywho, I’ll just concentrate on hating SUVs and republicans for now.
This will never happen. Its like some people don’t think before they state what their ideas are. For someone to have such an illogical idea and still not realize it to the point that he/she actually wants to hold a meeting about it is beyond me. This is why I left Brooklyn.
The coop sounds like a pretty natural place for a meeting like this. Coops tend to breed well meaning but sorely misguided and uninformed plans to save the Earth. There are enough like-minded people around to make it easy to get critical mass behind a stupid idea.
I imagine all of the people who are going to voice their support for this at the meeting have given up vacations to Europe as the first important step in reducing their carbon footprint. I’m sure they have also given up drinking imported wine and cheese because of all of the fossil fuel it takes to transport goods from overseas. Good for them.
But all sarcasm aside, their switching to organic free trade coffee has really saved a lot of peasant farmers in Peru. Which is great, because now the peasant farmers can finally buy the SUVs they have always wanted. And the best part of this is that they don’t even have to actually expend a single bit of effort in the process, other than pulling more money out of their wallet when they buy their daily cup of Joe.
Kidding. Kidding. The coop is great. Just remember, the important thing is to know what is best for everyone who can afford organic free range beef, and then to enforce that choice with carefully chosen words of smug judgment.
http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/2008/02/10/62-knowing-whats-best-for-poor-people/
Ethanol takes more energy to produce and results in worse gas mileage. Plus it raises the price of food. Green my foot. You want green? Drill for oil off the coast, and phase out SUV’s.
the best part will be when they attempt to get permits so the green agenda will conflict with the NIMBY agenda.
People united by fancy cheeses and tofu will be torn apart.
Well said, lechacal. Now get out of my head. 😉
Pure unmitigated stupidity. Well meaning but totally midguided and if it ever got off the ground (which it won’t) ultimately harmful.
I try to be polite and respectful of various opinions on this board, but this is truly one of the stupidest ideas I have heard in months.
Nice idea, but just the emissions control systems on a single ethanol plant can cost upwards of $2 million. Ethanol plants themselves are sources of pollution. The EPA and Community Boards wouldn’t be very supportive of a plant in Brooklyn.
Rent a Prius when you need one. Get a bike. Take the subway.
I commend the cooperative for its laudable goals. Our fossil fuel addiction does nothing but fund the activities of our country’s enemies, drives a nutty foreign policy especially in the middle east, allows bullies like Russia to cow our European friends and does irreparable harm to our environment.
But corn based ethanol is not the answer. Corn has a relatively low amount of energy compared to the resources needed to grow it and it has a negative impact on food prices worldwide.