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Nice article. But the comments are more interesting, IMHO.
It promotes BURNING FOOD (corn) in our cars, removing that corn fom the food chain and promoting the starvation of millions in third world nations, thereby accomplishing the Malthisian objective of getting some of these superflous folks off the planet.
Questions??
Really none of my concern. On the other hand the continuing use of the 'eat'n corn' talking point is tiring.
You wouldn't eat that corn that goes in the ethanol pots and your hogs wouldn't eat it. My animals don't eat it ~ not even the crows.
Besides, it's all water under the bridge. T. Boone Pickens says that natural gas is so cheap now we should convert all the trucks in the country immediately. We'll get to the cars later.
Ethanol plants here in Indiana are closing up faster than old Kmarts. Congress repealed the tax credit for domestic production and the tariff on imports - as of Jan 1 2012.
Brazil’s sugar cane ethanol is far more cost effective to produce than our corn ethanol.