@Clyde2003: We already have several states' worth of land dedicated to the growing of corn, farming requires a lot of land. How much land are we currently using to drill for oil? Hypothetically, if we could support ourselves with our own oil how much land in America would we need? How does the environmental impact of drilling for oil and planting trees compare?
@Jen: I find it strange that most of the people who launch themselves into fake coughing fits and claim that I'm giving them cancer whenever I light a cigarette still fire up the bong every morning at half past nine.
I can't believe we used to have a one-hundred-thousand-dollar bill. And that it had Woodrow Wilson on it. I did remember who was on the two-dollar bill, though. And I remember what's on the back, the signing of the Declaration of Independence. I get a lot of them in my cash register at work for some reason, so I take them out and spend them for the sake of novelty. I also get a lot of half dollars.
Interesting fact: The one-hundred-thousand-dollar bill was a gold certificate rather than a silver certificate, and was red on the back rather than green. Nothing was on the back but a stylized number 100,000 and the usual fancy engraving, such that I notice has all but disappeared from modern notes.
So all you need to create diesel is water, dirt, and time, same as our food. How does it compare to the amount of biodiesel you can squeeze out of a field of corn? What's the environmental impact of planting these trees?
Man, when did we decide those wrap-around windshields were a bad idea. No blind-spots and much less ugly than Volvo's new transparent A-pillars. Disney toyed around with that modern animation that Warner Brothers was doing, but ultimately decided that like most things minimalist it wasn't better just easier.
If I want soy sauce on my rice I'm going to bloody well put soy sauce on my rice no matter where I am. Americans don't give their visitors any crap like that, we let them do whatever they want at dinner. Technically there's a right way and a wrong way to hold a fork, but we don't care. Because we're cool like that.
@Jen: I find it strange that most of the people who launch themselves into fake coughing fits and claim that I'm giving them cancer whenever I light a cigarette still fire up the bong every morning at half past nine.
Interesting fact: The one-hundred-thousand-dollar bill was a gold certificate rather than a silver certificate, and was red on the back rather than green. Nothing was on the back but a stylized number 100,000 and the usual fancy engraving, such that I notice has all but disappeared from modern notes.
"Sphinx of Black Quartz judge my vow."