BLACK GOLD!

Ughhhhhh. Can't we just use it all up so we don't have to hear about OIL anymore? Please make it stop! But honestly, oil is a huge issue in our world today. War, climate change, economic hardship, terrorism......it can be a contributing factor to all of these. Our speaker worked for exxon mobile.....funny. Although he seemed relatively neutral, we must ask our selves..."what does this person have to gain by me believing him...." as instructed to do so several times in our class. One of the best parts of this was the graph on plants that are most productive for making biofuels. I always thought ethanol from corn was a DUMB idea. So much of our grain goes to feeding livestock, and livestock is so subsidized by the government that it would be insane to give corn to our cars (unless we could all go veggie.......anyone? No? okay, just making sure people are still unwilling to give up their meat....). But seeing that certain plants might, and I say might, be able to lend us a hand with at least SOME kind of fuel addition.....thats at the very least encouraging. Lets grow that oil producing grass in Africa where it's native and promote a diverse ecosystem there while growing it, and having the people who own the land make money and make sure both parties on both sides are getting a fair trade. It's like shadegrown, organic, fair trade coffee, but for fuel and with grass. Now that's a decent idea. Our speaker told us that our energy needs are going to take REAL innovation. I am a optmistic realist. I feel like this will be hard, but.....uhhhh WE CAN FLY THROUGH THE AIR IN A F****ING CHAIR. We can go to the moon. Our cell phones talk to satellites in SPACE........in a matter of SECONDS. "Necessity is the mother of invention". Well, Earth, we need some new energy. Let's get our brains thinking