American Biomass

There is a better answer, and it is all about buying American. It's called biomass - organic materials such as grains, livestock waste, agricultural byproducts, or wood offal which can be used to create electricity or fuel. Biomass has nearly miraculous advantages:

• Reduce our dependence on foreign oil and fossil fuels: We could replace half of our current gasoline usage with renewably-generated fuels (saving $25 billion currently spent on imported fuel).
• Reducing or eliminating harmful emissions such as greenhouse gasses and toxic pollution: the carbon dioxide generated by fuel combustion can be offset by the amount consumed by the fuel crops. The US Department of Energy estimates that a switch to biomass could be the air-quality equivalent of taking 70 million cars off the roads.
• Improve the environment: Grown and managed intelligently, biomass crops can improve soil and water quality and consume waste products that would otherwise be burned or landfilled.
• Create jobs: according to the USDA, 17,000 new jobs for every billion gallons of ethanol.
• Boost the economy: Per the American Biomass Association, dedicating 50 million acres to crop production would infuse rural America with $12 billion annually. On a global level, biomass can create local, sustainable economic growth for developing nations.

Go to the American Biomass Association's website for information on current legislative initiatives as well as congressional caucuses. Contact your legislators and let them know you want them to support biomass: http://www.biomass.org/index.html

While you're at it, drop Dubya a line(let's not forget he received over $1.5 million dollars in campaign contributions from the oil and gas industry): president@whitehouse.gov Phone: (202) 456-1414 Fax: (202) 456-2461 President George W. Bush 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. Washington, D.C. 20500

Check out the DOE's biomass website: http://www.eren.doe.gov/bioenergy_initia...

Read more about the Galapagos Islands' disaster: www.gct.org

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