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"iBoaterer" wrote in message
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In article ,
says...

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?

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Of course it takes more energy to make it than it produces. If it
didn't we'd have the first perpetual energy source since the dawn of
mankind.