Comments on: Matching American money with Swedish green tech

President Bush to meet with the prime minister of Sweden to discuss research collaboration between the two countries.

[suyts]

Sigh,

Yeh, let's start emulating Sweden. Why is it always novel that one can make a fuel from a tree, bush, plant or grass? This is not new!!! People have been doing this for millenniums. If anyone was serious about having a cheap, renewable energy souce, they would find a way to market fuel from grass clippings. Rice? Have you checked the price lately? Corn? Corn sells for well over $2.00 a bushel. Last I checked, it took over a bushel of corn to make a gallon of ethanol. Why can't we use a cheaper plant. They all make ethanol. The process is essentially the same. Let's use something we can all get behind, renewable and cheap. Why the expensive, nutrient depleting alternatives?

[be_free]

Don't sigh, and see the positive side of it

While it's well-known that ethanol can be extracted from other sources, this is not the point here. What Sweden use as source is due to the fact that this is a waste mass from another industry, trying to utilize what already is, not something to be planted. So, Sweden just shares what it does.

I'm sure both parties are aware of that both have the technical know-how, but also that Sweden is the country in this case that have taken this know-how to task by actually utilizing this know-how to to deal with an existing problem. In this case to the point where it also makes sense economically and not only ideologically.

And it's here where the song and dance for Papa US comes in, since it takes cash to get serious, cash that can be grown. As such, Sweden is on the path to solve its environmental problem, and US Investors add a bit to their ts bank accounts.

In best case scenario the initiative creates a trend, and potential for a new market might emerge with a conceptual philosophy that can be translated into a number of other already existing areas. Repeat cycle, make money.

Because you know it's always about the bottom line.

[bobbydi]

Need money? Find a crooked politician.

Those Swedish people could have started by going to banks and big companies and lots of places besides Bush. Bush is known for having a few arms
twisted(torture) and ordering taxpayer money being spent on questionable projects. It is this type of person those Swedish people need to get the money- make the American taxpayer pay for most of it. Pay Bush some money- the $2 a gallon
is covered by taxpayer money, leaving the Swedish investors with $2 a gallon profit. Maybe more- under Bush there has been billions paid to some companies that have only cashed the checks.
Maybe the Swedish are trying to get some of that kind of money. George W Bush is a good person to ask, if you pay him enough.

[suyts]

Hey, what kind of trees are they?

Aren't some of our trees bad today? We'd better check it out and make sure that we don't have to plant the bad ones. lol