it's not easy being green

sometimes, because i live in a tiny little town with a tiny little npr affiliate there is a plethora of classical music on their station. and so in order to hear people talking (which i like) i have to listen to the more conservative radio station that hosts such blowhards as glenn beck, bill o'reilly and sean hannity. now, i can usually stand it for about 15 minutes and then i have to change the station or start yelling at the radio. this morning glenn beck was talking about how stupid we all are to want to use ethanol. that we would need a corn field the size of texas to be able to produce enough ethanol to sustain our current gasoline usage,so why even try. apparently he was also complaining about taking the corn away from the cows but some farmers called in to say there's an ethanol byproduct that is almost totally protein that the ethanol peeps sell to farmers to give to their cows (not sure if it's cheaper than corn, but it's more efficient). so glenn's still up in arms about it and here is where i get annoyed. first of all, why are we trying to sustain our current usage? shouldn't we all be trying to cut back on our energy usage? and even if we can't totally rely on the ethanol, it would help us to rely less on foreign oil, no? why is this a bad thing? another stupid thing these people were saying (this is a few days ago) is that we shouldn't have people ride bikes. because if you ride your bike more you'll eat more beef and we'll have to raise more cattle which take more energy so it's inefficient and we might as well all drive everywhere. argh. i don't understand how you can argue against saving the environment! how is using less fossil fuels a bad thing? my brother builds big wind farms so that we can use more wind energy. it's totally clean energy, and people fight his company all the time. like the wind turbines they want to put in martha's vineyard. the rich people are freaking out (still) about it. not only would they be barely visible, they're producing 100% clean energy. HOW IS THIS BAD??!!!???!!! i know that i'm just one person. and my little one person contribution to recycling, biking and using less energy aren't going to save the environment, but if we all did it, it would add up. and i just don't understand why you would argue against that.