{"id":1864,"date":"2006-02-04T15:23:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-04T15:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sustainablog.greenoptions.com\/2006\/02\/04\/switchgrass\/"},"modified":"2006-02-04T15:23:00","modified_gmt":"2006-02-04T15:23:00","slug":"switchgrass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/switchgrass\/","title":{"rendered":"Switchgrass?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eeob.iastate.edu\/research\/iowagrasses\/ornamental\/aaimages\/PanVir19s.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eeob.iastate.edu\/research\/iowagrasses\/ornamental\/aaimages\/PanVir19s.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>While I&#8217;d love to believe that the President&#8217;s speechwriters were <a href=\"http:\/\/sustainablog.blogspot.com\/2005\/09\/another-biofuel.html\">combing the sustainablog archives<\/a> when they came up with that one, Dave <a href=\"http:\/\/gristmill.grist.org\/story\/2006\/2\/4\/0241\/31043\">shows us the political caluclus<\/a> involved in the mention of this potential source for cellulosic ethanol. Nevertheless, there&#8217;s a buzz building around switchgrass: Treehugger <a href=\"http:\/\/www.treehugger.com\/files\/2006\/02\/switch_grass_fu.php\">points<\/a> to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=5183608\">an NPR introduction<\/a> to it, and James has <a href=\"http:\/\/thefraserdomain.typepad.com\/energy\/2006\/02\/switchgrass_is_.html\">a very thorough overview<\/a> of switchgrass&#8217; potential as a fuel source, as well as its broader benefits to farmers.  I keep thinking of bamboo, and the environmental crowd&#8217;s rediscovery of this hardy plant as a good alternative to tree-based lumber &#8212; is switchgrass a parallel of sorts?<\/p>\n<p>On a more general note, Dubya&#8217;s claim that the US is &#8220;addicted to oil&#8221; was a &#8220;duhh&#8221; moment for most of us, and <a href=\"http:\/\/thehigherpie.blogspot.com\/2006\/02\/we-have-always-been-at-war-with.html\">his advisors have tried to quash enthusiasm<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.renewableenergyaccess.com\/rea\/news\/story?id=42820\">the forthcoming budget proposal will help in that regard<\/a>).  But has the POTUS opened Pandora&#8217;s box?<\/p>\n<p>Categories: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/jmcstras\/switchgrass\" rel=\"tag\">switchgrass<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/jmcstras\/ethanol\" rel=\"tag\">ethanol<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/jmcstras\/renewable\" rel=\"tag\">renewable<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/jmcstras\/energy\" rel=\"tag\">energy<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/jmcstras\/sotu\" rel=\"tag\">sotu<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/jmcstras\/Dubya\" rel=\"tag\">Dubya<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While I&#8217;d love to believe that the President&#8217;s speechwriters were combing the sustainablog archives when they came up with that one, Dave shows us the political caluclus involved in the&nbsp;[ &hellip; ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":17020,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Switchgrass? 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