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Default Ethanol?

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On Sat, 27 Apr 2013 11:35:58 -0400, iBoaterer
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Didn't Al Gore finally admit that turning our food source into fuel was a bad idea?

Republican: Igor no like new technology. Igor scared.

What new technology is there in fermenting grain? It has been going on for thousands of
years.


I rest my case....


The problem is that it is a very inefficient process, particularly
when you start with starch like corn. Using cellulose is even worse.

Sugar cane works better since you are starting with sugar but growing
sugar in an ecological nightmare virtually everywhere they do it.
The US can't even grow enough cane to supply ther national "table
sugar" demand and environmentalists are trying to shut down that
industry in Florida. Florida grows most of the sugar in the US ... in
the drained areas of the Everglades ... nuff said?

Brazil is having the same environmental holocaust around their sugar
to fuel business ... but nobody cares, not even the global warming
people.


Gee, who was it here that said that it takes more energy to make ethanol
than it produces?