Former Vice President, Al Gore challenged the country today to adopt a new energy policy which mandates the country be free from the use of all fossil fuels in the production of electricity within 10 years.  The Vice President stated that current reliance by the US on fossil fuels poses not only a risk to the global environment but also a grave national security crisis and huge economic risk due to cash outflows to acquire these fuels causing trade deficits to explode.

The use of wind to produce energy has been broadly discussed as the best alternative for fossil fuels along with ethanol and Kansas is in the middle of both the wind belt as well as one of the nations top produces of corn.  Kansas has a lot to gain with the switch from fossil fuels to renewable and green energy sources like Ethanol and Wind power.

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Hi Tanya, you have hit on a pet peeve of mine.  I hope that Kansas focuses on "wind" as opposed to ethanol production as a means of reducing the country's dependency on fossil fuels.  Corn is very hard the earth as it is, without the added problem that all of that land is no longer feeding people but is instead powering electric tooth brushes and battery chargers:)  I think that growing crops to produce oil is a bigger social and environmental problem than a realistic solution to a problem.  Doing away with the internal combustion engine for passenger vehicles within ten years would go much further to alleviate the issues that ethenol is supposed to address.

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