sez who? These are the choices we have: warming our homes or freezing to death.
At the moment our outside temperature is -10 degree Fahrenheit / -23.3333333 degree Celsius.
Most of the homes in Alaska have a choice of heat source. We can use firewood. We can use heating oil. We can use natural gas. We can use electricity. Or we can use a combination. Many urban homes use electricity to push the warm air from the primary source out to the rooms to be heated. Other than firewood, the other fuels are very expensive. Of course, if Alaskans were allowed to drill (baby-drill!) fuel costs would be greatly reduced.
If the twits who flew in private jets (lots and lots of jets!) to Copenhagen aren't causing problems with the climate, then Alaskans certainly aren't causing problems. I suspect each of those planes caused much more climate contamination than my wood stove.
Jet fuel is based on either an unleaded paraffin oil (Jet A-1), or a naphtha-kerosene blend (Jet B). Now, I sure don't want to breathe in that stuff!
ahhhh but wait...look what I found!
A deal airlines announced Tuesday to buy greener jet fuel actually is a setback to climate-saving efforts, according to prominent environmentalist.
Under two deals, 15 airlines agreed to buy camelina-based jet fuel from Seattle-based AltAir Fuels and/or synthetic jet fuel derived principally from coal or petroleum coke from Rentech, Inc.
"Liquid fuel from coal has yet to be commercialized in the U.S. and would open up a vast new market for the extraction and combustion of coal, setting the U.S. back in its efforts to meet significant reductions in greenhouse gas pollution and to forge agreements on pollution reduction with other countries," Barratt-Brown wrote.
"Liquid coal development is inconsistent with the clean energy economy that will help us avoid the worst impacts of global warming. The lifecycle emissions of liquid coal are nearly twice that of conventional fuels and could dramatically increase the emissions from the transportation sector, which accounts for thirty percent of U.S. carbon dioxide emissions."
Pardon me, I need to put another log on the fire!
