From herepog2 at gmail.com Thu Jul 23 00:17:00 2009 From: herepog2 at gmail.com (pogo here) Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 21:17:00 -0700 Subject: [Psgc4coop] Just a Drop of Gasoline Message-ID: Just a Drop of Gasoline - *By Justin Trauben Organic Consumers Association, July 15, 2009 * We're not talking much here. Just a drop; a drop of gasoline with every meal. Who hasn't gotten their hands dirty at the gas station and grabbed a potato chip before washing? You know it's happened before. I was asked by our political director Alexis to write an article covering the current media hooplah about a simple hydrocarbon called hexane. As a by-product of every petroleum refinery on earth, there is a lot of cheap hexane out there and when you consider how efficient this alkane can be, the idea of just dumping it off the shores of Somalia seems so wasteful. For a while we used hexane as a cleaning agent for removing grease in the printing industry as well as a solvent for rubber cement, but since print media is dead and I'm a little too old to still be sniffing glue, hexane needs another gig. Free showers for the homeless? Clean our bullets for a second go? Glue the streets of Detroit to prevent emigration? Nope. The correct choice is simple and ingenious: excess hexane is now effectively being used to clean our food. At seven cents per pound, hexane is currently the dominant extraction solvent for soy products. http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_18565.cfm -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: