[JerseyHighlander]

Looks like a very thorough discrediting of the Ethanol lobbyists talking points and underlying claims from the Australian Government. It's a good thing too, wheat and cattle feed is in no need of a further pricing shocks in Australia.

[TenthAmendmentChampion]

GW ping

[saganite]

LOL. The Emperor has no clothes.

[who_would_fardels_bear]

Another thing that environmentalists and welfare farmers and bureaucrats neglect to tell us:

After you process all of the green stuff that goes into making ethanol, when it comes out the other end it is no longer green!

Imagine how much dye we would need to buy to keep this process green?

Not to mention that we might price a lot of smaller cities out of being able to dye their local rivers, lakes, and kegs green for St. Patrick's Day.

This is truly an abomination!

[JerseyHighlander]

Thought this might be of interest to you. If you have a AU ping list maybe post this to it.

[chaos_5]

Allow me to dismiss this in the same way the pinko echo-Nazis will.

There guys are just paid off by big oil!

[xcamel]

FReepmail me to get on or off

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'Bout time.. I think about it with every food purchase too... ready for $5/gal Milk??

[alloysteel]

Ethanol is a dead end.

Except for perhaps getting the opponents to REAL energy self-sufficiency into such a falling-down drunken stupor, that they mistakenly vote to lift the restrictions on energy extraction within our own borders. Like open up the coal reserves in the Escalante country in Utah, tap into the PROVEN and the potential reserves in the Alaskan North Slope and off our own coastal waters, including ANWR, begin extracting fissionable material to fuel the new technology that will be used in the nuclear power plants in this country, applying known and proven technology to dispose of the waste stream in this country (the Plasma trash reduction process), even going back and opening up old landfills to extract the methane that has been accumulating there.

And new sources of energy, most notably Methane Hydrate, would be collected from the base of the continential shelf that surrounds every land mass in the world. In fact, it may be to our advantage to harvest this accumulation of Methane Hydrate, to prevent its eructation under the influence of warming ocean currents reaching the depths where it is known to exist. This removal of a potential hazard, and harnessing it for use in the generation and distribution of energy may be the new frontier in the coming future of general prosperity.

Again, ethanol is not the way to go. It may bring some short-term prosperity to crop production, but at what cost? Reclamation of waste from farming operations, in the form of Thermal Depolymerizaton, may proved to be a better use of resources than continously mining the soil, to produce crops suitable for the production of ethanol.

[WOBBLY BOB]

http://www.twincities.com/ci_8197147

Study: Converting land into biofuel crops worsens global warming