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> >From: Keith Addison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> >Subject: Re: [Biofuel] DISTILLERY DEMAND FOR GRAIN TO F
rom: Keith Addison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Jan 20, 2007 9:18 AM
>To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org
>Subject: Re: [Biofuel] DISTILLERY DEMAND FOR GRAIN TO FUEL CARS VASTLY
>UNDERSTATED
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>Take a bow, Zeke, bravo - too many people who should know better have
>been gettin
Take a bow, Zeke, bravo - too many people who should know better have
been getting that wrong, including Lester Brown.
>Now, using corn for fueling cars does sound like a lousy idea, but
>not because it might increase corn prices. Considering that corn now
>sells for only about two thirds of wh
Joe Street a écrit :
> I think sugar beets are a better bet for use in ethanol production
> than corn.
>
> Joe
and it's the choice made for industrial production of ethanol in France
and Belgium.
Monoculture that needs as well fertilizers and pesticides, but less
water or GMO than corn.
And suga
I think sugar beets are a better bet for use in ethanol production than
corn.
Joe
Zeke Yewdall wrote:
Now, using corn for fueling cars does sound like a lousy idea, but not
because it might increase corn prices. Considering that corn now sells
for only about two thirds of what it costs to gr
GAAAHH!
MORE idiocy!!! CORN IS NOT A GOOD FUEL why cant they figure this out?
everyone here knows a dozen or more different sources of liquid fuel, so why
cant anyone else come up with one?No virus found in this outgoing message.
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Now, using corn for fueling cars does sound like a lousy idea, but not
because it might increase corn prices. Considering that corn now sells for
only about two thirds of what it costs to grow it, I don't see this is such
a bad thing. Maybe farmers around the world could support themselves
again?
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Earth
Policy Institute
DISTILLERY
DEMAND
FOR GRAIN TO FUEL CARS VASTLY UNDERSTATED World May Be Facing Highest
Grain
Prices in History
Lester
R. Brown
Investment
in
fuel ethanol distilleries has soared since the late-2005 oil price
hikes, but
