Showing posts with label Joe Romm. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Joe Romm. Show all posts

Saturday, April 10, 2010

America's Fiercist Climate Blogger Reams Canadian Oil Company

That's Joe Romm from Climate Progress for the uninitiated, on Husky Energy, who are sticking the following advert on Canadian gas pumps:
Here’s how “Mother Nature” makes her fuel...

First, you take some heavy oil or tar sands from Canada. If you’re a Canadian oil producer, you call tar sands “oil sands” (see Memo to all: They ain’t “oil sands”). Everyone else can call it the “biggest global warming crime ever seen.” See also Canadian bishop challenges the “moral legitimacy” of tar sands production.

Then you refine it into gasoline and add “up to 10% ethanol.” Of course, this is the not ethanol from low-carbon, sustainably grown cellulosic biomass:

Cough! [Bullshi!t] Cough! It’s made from the most environmentally-destructive form of oil known to humankind with a little environmentally-questionable food-based biofuel thrown in.

Mother Nature needs to hire a good attorney.

Joe's got a new book out, by the way.