Thoughts on Green Fuels - the Countries

Here you will really see a big changeover and you might even see some historical things going down. You will see major changes in different parts of the world for sure.

There is so much potential arable land in Africa and South America that could produce the raw materials for green fuels it is scary. Much of that land seems untouched because there is no oil or other raw materials buried beneath them. However that land suddenly becomes very valuable once they start growing corn and green fuel refineries start to sprout up right next to them.

In the past there were only altruistic reasons to help turn crap land into farm land. Now there will be an actual financial incentive involved. The more and better corn you grow the greater the amount of money you will make. Scientists would work to turn scrub land into agricultural land. It will be like oil exploration projects but with less work and geologists involved. They would also have to work on making the stalks yield more corn and having that corn create more energy per bushel. Could super-corn be on the way?

The Middle East will probably cease to be a world-wide concern I think. Crazy fundamentalists backed by Iranian and Saudi oil money will go the way of the anarchist bomb thrower or the Communist nationalist. Something that was a concern way back when but not so much in the future. Now every nation (that has enough arable land) would be able to generate their own energy right out of the ground. Corn won't be only used to feed hungry people but to run their cars as well. The source of the worlds energy will go from being controlled by people that hate us to being available to any nation that has a lot of land.

Of course the only way this could come about is if oil prices get so high that green fuels will not only look attractive but be the cheaper alternative. I will bet any money that the Saudis and other oil controlling nations will do anything they can to squelch this whole deal though. The wealth and importance of their kingdom is at stake.

So they wouldn't be adverse to start pushing down prices by any means necessary to get oil to look more attractive then green fuels. This could be good for consumers and might be bad for the oil majors depending on what they are going to do in response.

Would the Saudis kill to see that green fuels will always be a pipe dream of environmental types? Probably not, but the Iranians and the Venezuelans might depending on how much green fuels cut into their money and influence. Whatever the case it sure will be nice to fill up your gas tank and know for a fact that the money that you used didn't pay for a bomb belt for some hapless Palestinian kid.