Comments:

Wilma - 2006-11-12 15:04:18
Hi Doug, you have me on your mailing list twice. Correct address is above. Wilma
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Wendy, NC - 2006-11-12 15:06:18
pssst, Doug, it was Ogden Nash
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Jim - 2006-11-12 22:19:02
Ethanol is a scam engineered by congress members from farm states and by major agribusiness companies. Some studies have indicated that ethanol consumes more oil energy in its production (plowing fields, fertilizer production, harvesting, transporting, processing and turning into ethanol, etc.) than it saves by replacing a small percentage of gasoline. Even if production can be made more efficient, it can only replace a small percentage of oil usage.
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~ Sin in Corea - 2006-11-13 10:11:41
It's "field corn" (cattle feed, very starchy), not sweet corn, that they use to make ethanol. They can also use beets, rutabagas, and just about any veggie. The Germans made fuel from beets in WWII, as I recall. Yes, it's expensive to make fuel from vegetables. There has been research on making biofuel from quick-growing trees like poplar.
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l'empres - 2006-11-13 10:15:34
How long before someone realizes that the raw materials for biodiesel are in more than one place, so maybe they could build the plants nearer to where it's needed? Why transport it a thousand miles if you can produce it within a hundred miles? Of course, there's always NIMBY.
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