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POPSAgriculture, from a different angle Several tribes of bark beetles are also major forest pests, and they farm their fungus gardens as their only source of food by growing the crop inside the sapwood of dead or dying trees. But the leaf-cutter ants are the modern pioneers, and their farming techniques are the most sophisticated of all, according to Schultz and Brady. They involve three separate but mutually dependent organisms that must all work together: The ants that eat leaves, grasses and flowers; the fungus that grows in the ant gardens; and a unique bacterium that lives and grows on the skin of the ants for mutual support. interesting.
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POPSMagical Thinking vs. Reality amount to $1.05 to $1.38 per gallon, or 42 to 55 percent of ethanol's wholesale market price. Ethanol does not reduce gasoline prices. If you lived in urban areas that used reformulated gasoline last summer -- that's the environmentally "clean" gasoline required for areas with air pollution problems -- you might have paid up to 60 cents a gallon more for gasoline. That's because the federal government required oil refineries to use 4 billion gallons of ethanol in 2006, regardless of price, and gas pump prices last summer reflected the fact that ethanol was twice as expensive as conventional gas in wholesale markets, and far more costly to deliver. The truth is that if ethanol has commercial merit, it doesn't need the subsidy. And if it doesn't, no amount of subsidy will bestow it.
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POPSEnergy 2.0 Energy 2.0 will do for us what the web has already done - decentralize energy production to the point where two or three giant firms cannot even envision controlling the energy markets.
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POPS2016, No more oil. What might that look like... Worldwide instability, economic recession & depression, endless gas-station lines, VIOLENCE at those long, temper-straining gas-lines... We need to start taking stock of our lives and start making other plans. Life as we have known it in America IS NO LONGER AN OPTION.
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POPS20 Heads of State in Venezuela for Pact on Cheap Oil The pact has helped Chavez promote his vision of regional independence from the United States. He used the summit to blame Washington for international economic problems, and called US military spending in Iraq "madness." He also denied criticism from Venezuelan opponents who say he is giving away Venezuela's oil wealth. Reading from an opposition statement accusing him of "bribery diplomacy," Chavez mused: "It's very probable this was written in the U.S. Embassy." Some Petrocaribe member countries have the option of paying partially for oil with services or goods such as rice, bananas and sugar. To help boost agriculture, Chavez said Venezuela will donate US$460 million from its oil proceeds annually to create an aid fund providing farming supplies and machinery in the region. He also offered to supply subsidized fertilizer to other countries. ... iht Great man. Any of this in the 'free and fair' USA media? Doubt it!
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POPSProtect Our Food "These "pharma crops" have been grown outdoors in 35 states. They threaten to mix with food crops and contaminate our food supply, with serious implications for public health, farmers, and food producers."
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