The war on oil

Fought in laboratories and farmers’ fields, the fight to break us of our chronic oil habit won’t be without its perils.

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Coming soon to a test tube near you: America’s new war.

This war won’t be fought with tanks and machine guns and improvised explosive devices, though. Instead, the generals in the War on Oil will employ techniques such as enzymatic hydrolysis and dry milling.


Rather than the conventional bullets and bombs, combatants’ weapons of choice will be switchgrass, wheat straw, corn and other material from the biomass.

The battle lines have been drawn and the objective is clear: Get the world’s biggest oil consumers weaned from their generations-old addiction to oil and establish the United States as self-sufficient producer of energy from alternative sources.

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