THE PRICE OF A WARM HOUSE !

Scientists find bugs the answer.

The genetic alteration of bugs.
So that when they feed on agricultural
waste such as woodchips or wheat straw,
they do something extraordinary.
They excrete crude oil.

I'm not kidding,"Bug Juice"
This is not science fiction.
“renewable petroleum”.

What is most remarkable about
this is that instead of trying to
reengineer the global economy,
as is required for the use of
hydrogen fuel, they are trying
to make a product that
is interchangeable with oil.

The scientists claim that this
bug juice will not only be
renewable but also carbon negative,
meaning that the carbon it emits
will be less than that sucked
from the atmosphere by the raw
materials from which it is made.

Because crude oil can be refined
into other products such as
petroleum or jet fuel.
This is only a few molecular
stages removed from the
fatty acids normally excreted by yeast
or E. coli during fermentation,
it does not take much fiddling
to get the desired result.

For fermentation to take place
you need raw material, or feedstock,
as it is known in the biofuels industry.
Anything will do as long as it can
be broken down into sugars,
with the byproduct ideally burnt
to produce electricity to run the plant.

Using genetically modified bugs for
fermentation is essentially the same
as using natural bacteria to produce ethanol,
although the energy-intensive final process
of distillation is virtually eliminated
because the bugs excrete a substance
that is almost gas pump ready "bug juice".

Having just read a letter from
the oil company that keeps our
furnace happy in the cold months,
I'm wondering just how high the
price of a gallon of fuel will go.

The oil company is giving us the
"opportunity" to "Lock in" the price,
the cost of what we will pay for
fuel oil this next winter season.

It's going to be about $1,000 a month
or each time the tank get's filled.
They want us to sign a contact
guarenteeing a stated price,
re guardless if the barrel
price of oil goes up or down.

Remembering the contrived gas
shortages of the 1970's,
when coal stoves Kerosine and
Quarts heaters became popular.

I wonder what the next new heat my
house craze will be,and it will be.
Maybe just possibly it will be this
"Bug Juice"