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Fueling the future.(biomass energy)

American Prospect, The,  April, 2006  by Obama, Barack

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"The fuel of the future is going to come from fruit like that sumach out by the road, or from apples, weeds, sawdust-almost anything. There is fuel in every bit of vegetable matter that can be fermented. There's enough alcohol in one year's yield of an acre of potatoes to drive the machinery necessary to cultivate the fields for a hundred years." THIS PRESCIENT VISION OF AN America where homegrown biofuels replace oil as our primary source of energy wasn't uttered by a scientist or an environmentalist.

It wasn't offered by some politician or interest group ...

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