There is wonderful news just out. That Gliocladium roseum, a fungus from the Patagonian rainforest, eats cellulose and excretes the same mix of compounds as diesel fuel. You can read the actual paper here. That's right. Take any cellulose source you want. Lawn cuttings. Old mattresses. Used underwear. Chop them up. Add water. Add fungus. Out comes diesel fuel.
Yup. That skeezy futon you left on the curb a while back could be turned into enough fuel to heat your house for the next year or more.
This is, of course, phenomenal news. Especially since little ol' Gliocladium r. is tough and aggressive. It's already used to combat fungal infections of crops, literally rupturing and outcompeting them. So an optimized variety shouldn't be any too fragile. Check out the overview on these little beasties here.
But.
BUT.
Just because a microorganism exists that can, more or less, excrete diesel in no way refutes the logic of where petrochemicals come from.
Yep, that's right. The disgusting, amoral scum at Fox News and their friends are already trying to use this news to claim that it undercuts the credibility of the theory of evolution. And they're already getting traction.
I'm sorry, but I well and truly believe that anybody involved in such a monstrously immoral campaign should be taken out and shot.
Not that I would trust the government to take on such a task.
But as far as I'm concerned, any attempt to pervert this discovery into yet another round of sabotage of the very underpinnings of rational thought is evil beyond forgiveness.
I'll tell you one thing. These f*ckers may have just gotten an eight year free ride, and that after generations of far too much official pandering, but they are losing now. And all their sleazy, cynical, hypocritical games aren't working so well anymore. And I intend to do everything in my power to reduce them to a state more marginal than the Flat Earth Society.
-Rustin
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