The Sunflower State

All ye Dorothys and Wizards of Oz, if you have any pride in calling Kansas as The Sunflower State, start fortifying your borders now. Kansas, if viewed as a giant sunflower field, can be dramatically classified as a threat to the freedom and democracy of California.
The Governor of California is proudly parading his Hummer that runs on 100% vegetable oil! Did you notice that bumper sticker and how happy Arnie looks? He looks like an extremely proud ringmaster pointing at a ferocious lion on a vegan diet! What an insult to the Hummer! Hummers should not be on the road in the first place. A Hummer running on oil meant to fry freedom fries? The amount of vegetable oil required to fuel Arnie's car for 1 day is probably the annual supply of vegetable oil for our kitchen.
Singer Sheryl Crow recently toured the US on a biofuel powered bus to promote climate-change awareness. She wants to create a world of loolessness and calls for a limit of 1 square of toilet paper per sitting. Clearly, she has never eaten dhal makhani!
So, where do these Hollywood educated eco-friendly champions think we are going to find the land to grow the amount of biofuels to keep all the engines in the West oiled? Will the Middle East start growing sunflowers in their deserts?
If only these people understand the land realities. Someone in the UN seems to, but who listens to the UN anyway. You need somebody with a more serious name than Ban Ki Moon at the top for that day to come.
If this whole idea of "feeding your car with cooking oil" catches on India, I can see the likes of Suffola and Parachute giving a run for Shell's money... atleast in Kerala. An average aunty can make fresh samosas in the car and the kids would have such a memorable picnic! Aditya Chopra wouldn't have had to shoot DDLJ in the UK just for a pretty poster. Maddy wouldnt have had to run his TVS-50 on kerosine-adulterated-petrol from the Taramani (village behind IIT-M campus) guy!