[Red Badger]

As if we needed another way to use food.........

[Red Badger]

Another way to waste our food ping!....

[Jaysun]

The areas being considered as potential sites for the new facility are currently being used for low-density cattle grazing and are not near any rain forests. Both companies have underscored their commitment to ensuring that the plant is located in a sustainable environment.

I wonder what will happen as more and more companies are motivated by this kind of leftist ignorance instead of profit. And it seems like a bad idea to depend too heavily on crops. What about the weather and pest?

[Bluegrass Conservative]

Vehicles powered by sugar cane? Now that's one . . .

SWEET RIDE!!!

[GOP_Party_Animal]

As if we needed another way to use food....

There is some fantastic progress being made as a result of high petroleum costs. Yes, making ethanol from corn is a waste but there are a number of other crops that can be grown and reaped cheaply in lousy soil, making them a good economic alternative that does not empower the Saudis or Chavez.

I think this has great potential. Sugar cane and corn are just stepping stones.

[Camel Joe]

It’s not our food, it belongs to Brazil. Sweet potatoes can also be used to create ethanol and I eat them once a year. In fact corn is only a stopgap biofuel source and inside of 10 years won’t be used for ethanol production. It is only being used now because it can be produced in sufficient quantities in the short term. Potato farmers in the hilly glacial till areas stand to be the biggest winners as they can reclaim the snack food markets they lost to corn in the eighties and go into ethanol stock supply when corn prices retreat. Of course if they made that public knowledge you wouldn’t get enough extra corn to supply the new ethanol plants.

[polymuser]

I sure wish they’d use some of that cane sugar to replace the corn syrup in Coke. I miss the old flavor, which I understand is only available around passover as their kosher version.

[Ancient Drive]

funny environmentalists are not concerned with the billions of corn plants being sacrificed, but when it comes to a redwood tree... oh boy!

[gathersnomoss]

...”will produce significantly less CO2”..

My prayers have been answered. I can feel the temperatures changing, just from that news alone.

Oh, wait a second. The blower on the AC just kicked on. Never mind.