biodiesel

http://www.treehugger.com/files/2006/03/worlds_largest_2.php

A Biodiesel plant is coming to Indiana!

As a diesel owner this excites me. My only concern is that they find some new places for soy bean fields, because it seems to me that in the long run we should be using existing farmland for food...

But props to the Governer for taking a risk on an alternative fuel!

So I wrote my senator yesterday, thanks to an informative and inspiring LiveJournal post by Lindsy. There is a bill that Congress recently voted on, and soon the Senate will vote on it, and it is scary.

There is a New York Times editorial about it here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/03/opinion/03fri1.html?_r=1&incamp=article_popular&oref=slogin

I don't really think I have anything else to say that was not said in Lindsy and Keira's posts and the comments that followed.

I need to write to my representatives more often. It's not that hard, and the more I do it the better I'll get at it, and it, along with grant writing, will help me keep the writing skills that I utilized every week in college. Perhaps if more people wrote to their senators, they would put more weight on the people's voices and not just vote with their party. Maybe not...but maybe.

So I will keep my eyes open for things that disgust me and proceed to make my voice heard.