"Thom Stewart" wrote in message
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Hey Wop!!

What an asinine reply!

So how much BTU's to plant the dinosaurs and convert them to oil. How
much BTU's to tramp around the world trying to find oil. How many dry
holes. How many BTU's setting Rigs, pumping. transporting crews, Tankers
transporting crude thousands of miles over the worlds Oceans; traveling
one way with empty tanks, land transport to Refineries. Seaman's pay,
Roust-abouts pay, Shipping terminals cost and their payrolls. I don't
think a Farmer and tractor running a disc plow and a harvester will even
come close to that cost.

You inadvertently explain why ethanol is not the miracle cure you claim it
is. The farmer and tractor. Pesticides to keep the bugs at bay, you know,
petrochemicals. Energy needed to convert the corn into ethanol, currently
not a very efficient process. At the end of the day, it still requires 1.1
gallons of fossil fuel equivalents to produce 1 gallon of ethanol at this
time. A simpler analogy, would you invest $110,000 for a return of $100,000
and think it was a good investment?

John Cairns