Is there no end to the liberal lunacy?
How scary are your jack-o’-lanterns? Scarier than you think, according to Obama’s Energy Department, which is claiming the holiday squash is responsible for unleashing greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.
Most of the 1.3 billion pounds of pumpkins produced in the U.S. end up in the trash, says the Energy Department’s website, becoming part of the “more than 254 million tons of municipal solid waste (MSW) produced in the United States every year.”
Municipal solid waste decomposes into methane, “a harmful greenhouse gas that plays a part in climate change, with more than 20 times the warming effect of carbon dioxide,” Energy says.
What’s a Halloween-loving pumpkin carver to do?
The department hopes that one day the pesky pumpkins can be turned into clean energy, and is working with industry players to develop and test “biorefineries,” facilities “capable of efficiently converting plant and waste material into affordable biofuels, biopower and other products.”
“It might not be long until the 1.3 billion pounds of pumpkins we produce annually are nearly as important to our energy security as they are to Halloween!” the department offers.
No fear: Larry and Gerry Checkon, shown here with their 1,797-pound pumpkin at the Great Pumpkin Commonwealth Weigh-off in Altoona, Pa. (Photo: Courtesy: Pennsylvania Giant Pumpkin Growers Association)
Source: Pumpkins cause climate change, Energy Department says – Washington Times
(H/T) Fox News
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