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		<title>The Corn (Ethanol) Conundrum</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Apr 2010 20:57:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GSerrano</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While corn-based biofuel, particularly corn-based ethanol, has been touted to be the most viable alternative to petroleum and other fossil fuels, the production of such grain-based alternative has sparked many a debate as to its supposed environmental sustainability. Food crop displacement is just one of the trade-offs in the burgeoning ethanol industry. Nowhere is the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Multibillionaire Richard Branson Worries About Peak Oil</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 15:03:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GSerrano</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Quinn, correspondent for The Christian Science Monitor, reports that Virgin owner and megawealthy Richard Branson supports the alarmist ‘warning of an impending peak oil crisis.’ Branson and some fellow British business leaders funded a recent study whose report supports the claim that peak oil will be real by 2015. The impending scenario where oil [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US War on the Taliban: a dark, slimy, and precious reason</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:46:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GSerrano</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The US war on the Taliban is founded on something deeper, but actually more obvious, than waging a war against militant insurgency and/or ideology. ‘The short answer is that today, as has been the case since 1979, neither a specific ‘militant’ nor ‘ideology’ is ‘being fought.’ Rather, the target of operations, for which more troops [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sarah Palin advocates for local oil production: “Drill, Baby, Drill!”</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2009 08:03:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sarah Palin believes that oil is here to stay for the US, and that renewable energy and domestic oil development should go hand-in-hand. “Alternative sources of energy are part of the answer, but only part. There’s no getting around the fact that we still need to &#8216;drill, baby, drill!&#8217; And if those in D.C. say [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Biofuels Are Not New Discoveries</title>
		<link>http://trendsupdates.com/biofuels-are-not-new-discoveries/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2009 23:59:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GSerrano</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[biofuels]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Contrary to popular thought, biofuels are not new scientific and technological innovations. They were around since the discovery of the automobile. Henry Ford’s Model Ts were planned to run on ethanol. This was as early as the beginning of the 20th century. The first diesel engines were said to be fueled on peanut oil. Gasoline [...]]]></description>
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