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Orrex

(66,894 posts)
Fri Feb 20, 2026, 09:52 AM Friday

Whatever happened with all that switch grass of which W spoke so highly?

Did it fix the energy crisis?

And are we still maintaining vigilance against pigman hybrids as W warned us?

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Whatever happened with all that switch grass of which W spoke so highly? (Original Post) Orrex Friday OP
Someone said the word 'switchgrass' in a meeting. louis-t Friday #1
It got switched off . . . hatrack Friday #2

louis-t

(24,590 posts)
1. Someone said the word 'switchgrass' in a meeting.
Fri Feb 20, 2026, 10:30 AM
Friday

Shrub picked up on it and thought it sounded like an idea. He always sounded like he was in a room and people were talking about something and he heard part of it and thought he was now an expert. Like when he was talking about economic 'drivers'. He never really understood the subject but thought it made him sound smart to mention it.

hatrack

(64,626 posts)
2. It got switched off . . .
Fri Feb 20, 2026, 05:15 PM
Friday

Kind of like ExxonMobil shuttering its algae biodiesel research after 20 years of greenwashing.

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