Yet more invective from the good doctor

Biodiesel? My response: 1st Law of Thermodynamics........

Corn requires nitrogen fertilizer, nitrogen fertilizer comes from the Haber process, which requires natural gas.
Corn and soybeans require superphosphate, superphosphate fertilizer comes from reacting mined phosphate rock with sulfuric acid, and sulfuric acid requires burning mined sulfur at high temperatures.
Corn and soybeans require potassium, K requires mineral mining.
After processing you must transport the fertilizer by rail and truck to the field.
Then you must apply the fertilizer with a diesel-driven tractor.
Oh, and you have to apply pumped water with a diesel-driven centrifugal pump.
Then you must harvest the corn with a diesel-driven combine.
Then you must process (esterify) the crop, oil, and waste, and that's not cheap.
It's a treadmill.

In the meantime, you have all this cheap available reduced carbon "goup" in the ground, and a vast majority of it is in the middle-east, and all you have to do is pump it out and it burns, baby! People will be fighting and dying for that oil for generations, and it is not going to be pretty.

Nice Try, but the truth won't go away. Our society (as we know it) is completely dependent on fossil fuel combustion. Nuclear, hydroelectric, wind power, geothermal, etc. is maybe 20% of total energy usage, and that's only in the developed world. Without the goup, you become third world, almost immediately. You got no propane, no electricity, no wood (chainsaws and wood-splitters), no gas to drive around and lull Izzy to sleep with, no plastic containers, no fresh tenderloin, etc. etc., ad nauseum. You and all your neighbors out there would quickly deforest your cliffside retreat. Surely to God, you know this.

Without a significant change in thinking, Malthusian reality will come with a vengeance in probably 10 generations And people do not change, nor do organisms really evolve, without first adapting to stress.

70's thinking? What about the truth?

AAS