>I have a niggling feeling that 10 years from now, the environmentalists will >be fighting the ethanol industry tooth and nail. anything can be done badly, >and I expect the ADM's of the world will be successful in turning a clean >renewable resource into a dirty unsustainable one...... > > >Steve Spence
Definitely a major worry. ADM, Cargill et al are already winning that future war, seems to me, with the likes of Club Sierra apparently preferring MTBE to ethanol, mainly through opposition to the ADMs, from what I can make out, and a misplaced concern about nitrate run-off from industrialised maize production, along with which party the corn-state senators belong to. They've completely confused ethanol and agribusiness. How can you win if you've got it all wrong in the first place? Keith Addison Journey to Forever Handmade Projects Tokyo http://journeytoforever.org/ >Subscribe to the Renewable Energy Newsletter: >http://www.webconx.com/subscribe.htm > >Renewable Energy Pages - http://www.webconx.com >Palm Pilot Pages - http://www.webconx.com/palm >X10 Home Automation - http://www.webconx.com/x10 >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >(212) 894-3704 x3154 - voicemail/fax >We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, >we borrow it from our children. >-- > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Keith Addison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <biofuel@yahoogroups.com> >Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2001 2:16 AM >Subject: [biofuel] Support Grows for Corn-Based Fuel Despite Critics > > > > http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/23/business/23ETHA.html > > > > July 23, 2001 > > > > Support Grows for Corn-Based Fuel Despite Critics > > > > By LIZETTE ALVAREZ with DAVID BARBOZA > > WASHINGTON, July 22 - Supporters of ethanol, a fuel made from corn, > > are gaining in their push to make it a major part of the nation's > > energy policy, despite persistent doubts about its economic and > > environmental benefits. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Small business owners... Tell us what you think! http://us.click.yahoo.com/vO1FAB/txzCAA/ySSFAA/FGYolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Please do NOT send "unsubscribe" messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/