On Aug 11, 8:08*pm, Brent > wrote:
> On 2012-08-11, NotMe > wrote:
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> >> On 2012-08-10, RichA > wrote:
> >>> It is of no value. *It has raised corn prices (and all the myriad
> >>> foods associated with it) by 100% over 1.5 years. *It scours engine
> >>> components of their protective oil layer. It dries out seals. *It
> >>> should be abolished.
> >>> P.S. Enviroqueers; *Lead by example, STOP DRIVING.
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> >> The environment is the excuse. It has nothing to do with
> >> environmentalists. *It has to do with big business and the corn lobby.
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> >> Corn ethanol is stupid. Sugar cane ethanol works (energy &
> >> economically). But here's the problem, can't make sugar cane ethanol in
> >> the contintal USA because it doesn't grow here. It works nicely for
> >> Brazil. Could work for Hawaii, but Hawaii being part of the USA is stuck
> >> with US politics so they import corn ethanol instead of making their own
> >> locally with sugar cane.
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> > Can't? *Louisiana, MS, Texas come to mind. *Also sugar beets. *My
> > grandfather ran some of his trucks on ethanol during WWII.
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> Sugar beets will not be as good as sugar cane. What makes sugar cane
> ethanol work so well is that another part of the plant fuels the process
> to make the ethanol. This way the energy is 100% gain, as opposed to an
> energy loss with corn ethanol.

Anyone who thinks ethanol, from whatever source is FREE or cheap is
INSANE and CLUELESS about the energy USED to produce it.