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To: D_Idaho

Most put the figure at 3-4 gallons of water per gallon of ethanol produced. Some of the water doesn’t get consumed, just dirtied up. Some is lost by watering the corn crop.

Ethanol break even when gasoline is about $5 a gallon. Some financial papers said this. Notice how many ethanol producers are now going broke.

Ethanol produces twice the CO2 as regular gasoline. So said CARB, before the gubernator forced them to take the data down.

ethanol is wasteful, and too expensive, which is why it was dropped from the fuel list for cars a hundred years ago.


5 posted on 09/03/2009 4:28:20 PM PDT by Tarpon (The Joker's plan -- Slavery by debt so large it can never be repaid...)
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To: Tarpon

Thanks

Rhetorical: Why are we doing this again? Wasn’t this a program from the Bush administration that caused a jump in food prices?

When will we get some adults back into leadership positions in Washington?


6 posted on 09/03/2009 4:50:13 PM PDT by John Galt's cousin (Palin = Principled conservatism.)
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