| The answer to all of America's energy and
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| | Switch grass could be a new bumper crop
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| oil needs might be as simple as a grass,
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| | for American farmers, who are being
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| switch grass to be exact. Switch grass is
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| | financially squeezed from a million
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| an amazingly easy to produce grass that
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| | directions.
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| can be converted to ethanol. Ethanol
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| | Not only that, but switch grass can be
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| holds lots of promise as an alternative
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| | used to purify water. It's roots can
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| to gasoline.
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| | take pesticides, herbicides, and
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| When you look at all the benefits of
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| | fertilizer out of water before it reaches
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| switch grass, it's hard to believe that
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| | the main waterways. this trait alone
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| it isn't being touted more heavily.
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| | makes it useful.
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| Switch grass could not only replace some
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| | Now as if all that weren't enough, the
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| fossil fuels use, it could help alleviate
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| | humble switch grass plant can even help
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| the damage done by years of burning
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| | in our efforts to clean the air. Switch
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| fossil fuels as well.
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| | grass cleans the air because it absorbs
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| Switch grass might be thought of as a
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| | carbon dioxide, that nasty green house
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| weed by some, which probably explains its
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| | gas.
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| lowly status. But switch grass was
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| | Many places are already experimenting
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| elevated to a new, lofty place when
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| | with switch grass as a source for energy,
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| President Bush brought it up in his 2006
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| | either as pellets for burning or
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| State of the Union address.
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| | converting it to ethanol.
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| Switch grass has many worthwhile and
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| | Democratic Senator Joseph Lieberman has
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| useful qualities. Chief among them is how
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| | already brought up switch grass as a cure
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| easy it is to grow.
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| | for international tensions over
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| Switch grass grows abundantly in the
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| | competition for fossil fuels. Noting our
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| Great Plains and is native to large parts
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| | growing competition for fuel with China
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| of North America. Picture yourself
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| | before the Counsel on Foreign Relations,
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| driving through the Midwest, when you
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| | Lieberman suggested lots of agricultural
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| gaze out the window you're looking at
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| | products like switch grass, corn and
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| lots of switch grass.cattle, horses,
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| | sugar can be used to create new sources
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| sheep and goats all love to munch of
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| | of fuel to power our cars and keep our
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| switch grass.
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| | houses warm.
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| Unlike most plants, switch grass is not
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| | In a world of dependence on fossil fuels
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| picky about soil and conditions. It's
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| | and rising gas prices, it is critical to
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| incredibly easy to grow even in clay or
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| | find new sources of alternative energy.
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| sand, flood or drought. A gardener's
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| | In this case, we may have to look no
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| dream plant. Remember, it "grows like a
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| | farther than America's "amber waves of
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| weed."
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| | grain.
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