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  • So now we're going to destroy all of our forests and domestic natural resources and call it "national security" God help me, I know I didn't fight in the Marine Corps for THIS stupidity... Having worked as a chemist on alternative fuel research I say this is a HORRIBLE idea! This is NOT sustainable either! Just do what we all know we need... Solar, wind, water, hydrogen fuel cell grade molecular hydrogen production from bactera (*cough cough) and any of the plethora of other methods that...

  • @THSurvivalGear have been conceived in small university labs across this great nation!!! The very concepts that get absorbed and killed by the oil and energy industries... America: the land where we kill innovation and discourage true scientific exploration. Imagination and genius? "NOT ON MY WATCH!" and "Especially not if my company didn't think of it first and it will mean I actually have to work or potentially go out of business!" sad sad sad! Change and innovation is the very heart of...

  • @THSurvivalGear Capitalism... its supposed to be this free market which thrives on new ideas, invention, genius, hard work, etc.... instead... it has been perverted and it has been killed in America... I'm a die-hard Republican and strict Constitutionalist but I can't get behind the way things are going down. I love this country, I fought as a US Marine until 2010 for my love of America but we are going in the WRONG direction. We're trading one problem for another closer to home...

  • this is retarded

  • There is a crop that can be used instead.

    This crop produces over 4 times the amount of Bio-matter in a 20 year time span, it can be used in rotational Farming practices with other crops, it sink a deep tap root that prevents top soil run off, and in turn it can be used for paper with a cleaner pulp extraction that that of trees with more strength.

    So you can make fuel, paper, and it is good for the farmers. To bad Hemp is illegal!

  • @gvenema Are you American?

  • fail! their using trees??????

  • We have already designed effective and entirely electrical cars. Now we just need to refine the process so it can be cheap enough for the average person, and voila, fuel is solved. (There is a ton of electrical energy available, and we can relatively easily obtain more).

  • yes!!! cut them all down because fresh air we breath come from the car-exhaust!

    and those trees all look like they'll grow back within a year.

  • yes!!! cut them all down because fresh air we breath come from the car-exhaust!

  • yes!!! because all those trees look like they took less than a year to grow!

  • what about domestic source of fresh air to breath?

    how about improving processes of solar to electric and electric cars?

    or if worse comes to worse design cities without cars, before the cars came along people lived walking healthy now we just made ourselves fatter and sicker.

    Now if you exercise, you just end up inhaling more pollution/car exhaust.

  • what about domestic source of fresh air to breath?

    how about improving processes of solar to electric and electric cars?

    or if worse comes to worse design cities without cars, before the cars came along people lived walking healthy now we just made ourselves fatter and sicker.

    Now if you exercise, you just end up inhaling more pollution/car exhaust.

  • how about solar power, and electric cars? and make more advances in that direction..leave the trees alone, they're our air providers and purifiers and are already being used as shelter..if we keep cutting them down, soon we'll have to drive into the forest if there exists one left to breath to stay alive.

  • i heard that ethenal came from sugar prosessing and used the crap that was not edible

  • ok, but how the hell do you do it? I could run around claim that this dollar bill I hold in my hand as enough energy equivalent to the Hiroshima bomb.  All we have to do is convert the mass in pure energy.

  • once the fuel is gone solar power will boom i reckon

  • They should do like finland!

    woodcutters are responsible for planting

    new trees!

  • Stop deforesting you bloody bastards

  • yes!!! stop cutting down tress that you SPECIFICALLY PLANTED TO BE CUT DOWN AND MADE INTO PAPER AND FUEL!!

  • What a fucking stupid Idea to get gas from corn and tree

  • this sounds like a dumb technology

  • 1000 gallons of full for an acre of forest doesn't sound like much. and deforestation is already a problem

  • you cant eat fucking corn so why do they care i know like cows eat it and we eat them but thats not all cows eat duuuuu!

  • how long does it take to grow tree??? how many time can u harvest with the same piece of land in a year???

  • We should not look to trees to keep our cars running but stop oil comp. from stopping new invention of new fuel. Like some from water and air. Look up HHO gas easily made from low watts of electricity. There are systems out there that use that to increase cars MPG up from 10 to 30 MPG. Like if you have 20 MPG car it would make it 30 to 50 MPG. At least thats not taking our food away and the cost to do it is under a $100. Read learn and keep learning.

  • i found out that my blood has fuel properties, kill me to get 1 galon of priceful fuel!!!!!!! i donate it!

  • XD~~~~~~~

  • why would we cut down even more trees and destroy our forests just for cars...

    *sigh*

  • you know we are already dystroying all the trees, all we need is the cars needing them to.

  • This world deserves to go to waste. This is the only planet with life and most humans trash it.

  • there going to cut down the lungs of the earth (trees) why? theres a shit load of gas and its selling so cheaply

  • this is bad and crap

  • what a bunch of crap !!

  • srorry but what is an aker of trees ?

    10 ?

    100 ?

    1000?

  • cutting 10 tree's and leaving the tree stump +

    planting 20+ trees back but it takes a while too

  • That would destroy the environment.

  • meh bad idea

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