Temperatures stay in the 90s in Houma, Louisiana, this time of year. Malik Rahim, a 62-year-oldformer Black Panther, founder of the post-Katrina Common Ground Collective and a 2008 Green candidate for Congress from Louisiana, says he's training to bike from Houma to Washington, D.C.
Rahim plans to advocate along the way for wetlands restoration and protection. His hopes to cover 35 miles a day for 45 days.
"Don't let your children or your grandchildren ask how did you sit by and watch life as you knew it be destroyed," he says on the video announcing his latest mission. "Some say I'm crazy. Some say my time could be better used doing other things, I'm too old. That's why I'm out there, for future generations. So that they can say that if life is destroyed as we know it, that at least there was one old man that tried to wake up this nation."
Rahim looks to be a Southern feeder for a cross-country ride that sets out from San Francisco for D.C. on July 24. (The website he gives for his project, Bike for the Gulf, isn't up yet, but as you'll see he's inviting people to join him.)
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Beautiful. But you need to put him on the show and visit him on his trip. Wouldn't it be nice if focus were on someone doing the right thing rather than endless harrangues about the Angles and Bartons.
Good idea, Mystified.
Alcohol in Brazil
Main article: Ethanol fuel in Brazil
Brazil was until recently the largest producer of alcohol fuel in the world, typically fermenting ethanol from sugarcane. The country produces a total of 18 billion liters (4.8 billion gallons) annually, of which 3.5 billion liters are exported, 2 billion of them to the U.S. [10]. Alcohol cars debuted in the Brazilian market in 1978 and became quite popular because of heavy subsidy, but in the 80's prices rose and gasoline regained the leading market share.
However, from 2003 on, alcohol is rapidly rising its market share once again because of new technologies involving flexible-fuel engines [11], called "Flex" by all major car manufacturers (Volkswagen, General Motors, Fiat, etc.). "Flex" engines work with gasoline, alcohol or any mixture of both fuels. As of May 2009, more than 88% of new vehicles sold in Brazil are flex fuel [12]
Because of the Brazilian leading production and technology, many countries became very interested in importing alcohol fuel and adopting the "Flex" vehicle concept.[11] In March 7 of 2007, US president George W. Bush visited the city of São Paulo to sign agreements with Brazilian president Lula on importing alcohol and its technology as an alternative fuel.[13]
Just trying to help
Jim
F*%K oil dependency lets get our farm land producing the fuel source
I do not believe this is a solution we should support. It seems to make the problem worse.
"...the race to grow crops for vehicle fuels is damaging rain forests in Asia, Africa and South America and adding to the emissions blamed for global warming..." http://chemicallygreen.com/rainforest-sugarcane/