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Non-Tech : $2 or higher gas - Can ethanol make a comeback?

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To: richardred who wrote (1426)	7/15/2006 3:02:32 PM
From: Think4Yourself	Read Replies (1) of 2801

re: "In its January edition, the respected journal Science published a study conducted by researchers at the University of California-Berkeley that concluded producing ethanol from corn uses much less petroleum than producing gasoline." The key word here is PETROLEUM. This study may in fact be right, but it is totally irrelevant. The claim is that it takes more ENERGY to produce ethanol than ethanol provides. They addressed only part of the issue. It takes a snotload of Natural Gas to make the fertilizer, and to process the ethanol, major facts they somehow managed to ignore. They broke the other studies "correcting" them with their incompetence. I bet they didn't even compensate for the fact that it takes a lot more ethanol to get the mileage as gasoline. They probably compared the "petroleum" to make 1 gallon of ethanol vs one gallon of gasoline, when it should be more like 1.5 gallons of ethanol vs one gallon of gasoline A biased and wrong analysis is about the best one can expect from the ethanol special interests. The word "respected" immediately tipped me off I was in for a laugh when I read that.

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