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Carol - 2007-10-20 08:31:30
I have heard that ethonal does not save us anything, in fact it costs more to make. It is a politcal ploy. For some reason I haven't been getting your notifies again.
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l'empress - 2007-10-20 15:13:01
You are right: many other products besides corn can be used to manufacture ethanol. The smart way to do it would be to use organic garbage (such as you'd throw on the compost heap) to produce ethanol *at place of origin.* No extra fuel to transport it somewhere else. Procure it for use where it's made. Sorry, that's too simple, isn't it? Besides, no one would want to live near it -- NIMBY.
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Joy Perry - 2007-10-21 14:15:33
It doesn't seem like very long ago to me that almost everyone in my neighborhood could have gotten arrested for doing what would be patriotic today--making alcohol. Like you, though, I wonder why corn? Why not make the ethanol out of something like sugar beets, which presumably might have a higher sugar content, and be less of a loss as food? I believe we're at an experimental phase of something that's got to happen. It would be interesting to go ahead a century or so and see what fuel is being used by then, wouldn't it! Joy
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