Gretchen, stop trying to make 'fetch' happen!

Now we apparently can make ethanol from leftover watermelons! No word yet on how much gasoline would be used to ship all those rotting watermelons to an ethanol plant...

Nor is there mention of the inescapable fact: ETHANOL IS WORSE FOR THE ENVIRONMENT THAN GASOLINE.

Here's an idea: if we grew switchgrass in 20% of the fields where watermelon was being grown, and stopped being prissies and only buying watermelons that look perfect, we could get 20 times as much ethanol per acre than we'd possibly get from watermelons.

Here's a better idea: electric cars.


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