Re: HFCS and cane sugar

In article <MPG.215760c82e259f1098a293@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
T <nospam.kd1s@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

In article <46ED870D.EAEDFDEA@xxxxxxxxx>, nospam@xxxxxxxxx says...
"Pete C." wrote:

Hawaii, for a seemingly "green" state, is incredibly wasteful of energy
from what I've seen. Look at all the tourist flyers with all the lovely
tiki torches burning away, each one of those things is burning something
like 23,000 btu/hr worth of imported natural gas. Bad enough to be
wasting 23,000 btu/hr on frivolous cosmetic stuff, but imported natural
gas?!!! At least produce some bio-fuel from stuff grown on the dang
island instead of bringing in LNG super tankers. Just one of those
torches wastes enough energy with it's 8hr/day x 365 day operation to
heat a house in the northern US during the winter months.

But the tourist industry provides employment for lots
of people in Hawaii, so providing "atmosphere" is not
wasted energy.

It's like when there's an occasional drought in
California, and the news shows pictures of golf
courses being watered -- that's not wasted water.
Those golf courses provide considerable employment
for the amount of water they consume. If you want
to save water in California, stop growing two crops,
cotton and rice, and the saved water will completely
eliminate the worst drought. There's cheap labor
all over the world that will be delighted to grow
all the cotton and rice America could ever use.
Heck, there's good cotton and rice being grown
in the southern U.S. -- no need to waste good
California real estate and water on those crops.


Cotton I can see, just start growing hemp again.

Good luck with that. ;-)

But rice is a little
different.

I don't understand why they'd bother.
It comes in so cheap from China.
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