WELL, HERE WE GO AGAIN...........TROPICAL STORM ISSAC WHICH MAY MAKE LANDFALL ON THE ANNIVERSARY OF INFAMOUS HURRICANE KATRINA ON AUGUST 29th, 2005. While the storm is not yet a hurricane, it is projected to be a Cat 1 or at most a Cat 2 when it makes landfall. As of 11 pm Monday night, the path still seems to be directly over the city of New Orleans, unless a shift in path happens in the next 18-24 hours.
BE SAFE AND DO WHAT IS BEST FOR YOUR FAMILY.........heavy rains may be the main issue, especially if the storm stays over the city for awhile. Check all your street drains to be sure they are clean. I may or may not post tomorrow night........if we lose power, will definitely not post.
Here's another article on "food vs fuel" that I thought was very interesting. I can only post the first two paragraphs without paying a large fee to post the entire article, but just click on the link provided to read the full article.
"Pete"
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Rethinking the food vs. fuel debate
Drought, low corn yield force reconsideration of the Renewable
Fuel Standard for ethanol
By Dave
Juday - August
26, 2012
This year's
drought, along with recent news reports of the lowest corn yield in 17 years,
has rekindled the food vs. fuel debate — and, for good reasons. When Congress
passed the Energy Independence and Security Act in 2007, an ambitious schedule
for incorporating ethanol into the nation's fuel supply known as the Renewable
Fuel Standard (RFS) was established. Though ethanol was sold as a way to make
our energy supply more secure, little consideration was given to what every
farmer knows: Mother Nature can be fickle, as this year's drought proves.
Congress made
several faulty assumptions, among them: that future supplies of corn would be
plentiful, that demand for motor fuel would increase and that the state of
fuel-making technology would ensure our energy future. Lawmakers just bet the
market wrong.
(Read full
article here: http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bs-ed-food-versus-fuel-20120826,0,5692524.story
)
