Quickies!

We’re still working on that list of ways to convince the auto industry that alt. fuels are the way to go, but in the meantime here are some quick tidbits from the news.

- Pacific Ethanol isn’t quite dead, just mortally wounded. It’s getting better!

- A Saudi Arabian scholar has warned that ethanol might be sinful for Muslims because oil is an important diplomatic link to the United States and perhaps the sole reason that the Saudis’ myriad human rights violations and shady foreign deals keep getting overlooked. No, just kidding, ethanol is bad because there’s alcohol in it.

- San Francisco has introduced electric car charging stations to the city as part of a larger plan to turn the Bay Area into “the ‘Electric Vehicle Capital of the U.S.’” Patton Oswalt is expected to blow a gasket in response any day now.

- Political cartoons still suck.