Oh yeah.  Biofuels will save us.  Just like Light Rail did.  Fireman Randy and his pals at Portland City Council really need to save us all by conserving the carbon dioxide - in other words, shutting up and doing some homework.

Last week’s report from Oregon State University on biofuels was instructive, but it should not have been a surprise.

The report by a team of economists in the College of Agricultural Sciences pointed out that when everything was considered, the costs of developing certain biofuels were enormous — in some cases much higher than gas or diesel — and that any environmental benefits from switching to such fuels might be had much less expensively by other means.

Of course, the Fireman's a politician now.  Facts be damned - he must be seen as "green".  So for now, it's biofuel.

Almost as soon as the Kyoto Protocol on global warming came into effect on February 15, Kashmir suffered the highest snowfall in three decades with over 150 killed, and Mumbai recorded the lowest temperature in 40 years. Had temperatures been the highest for decades, newspapers would have declared this was proof of global warming. But whenever temperatures drop, the press keeps quiet.

Things were different in 1940-70, when there was global cooling. Every cold winter then was hailed as proof of a coming new Ice Age. But the moment cooling was replaced by warming, a new disaster in the opposite direction was proclaimed.