Just an idea that cropped up by talking to a friend about all the people displaced by recent hurricane activity, rising gas prices, and ecology in the Southern U.S.

Suppose you take the displaced, jobless people and offer to set them in different areas of the South clearing kudzu. You pay them for their efforts, they work to get back on their feet. The cleared vegetation is then taken to biofuel processing companies where it's turned into clean, efficient fuel rather than just becoming mulch.

Nah, on second thought, it makes entirely too much sense...