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To: Bearcatbob who wrote (164649)4/27/2006 8:53:28 AM
From: DMaA  Read Replies (2) of 794026
 
Here's an ethanol downside I've never read about anywhere:

There's one corn (or any alternative crop) harvest per year. All the corn needed to provide feed stock for ethanol all year long comes in at one time. So either you store massive amounts of corn and dole it out over the year, or you convert all the corn to ethanol and store THAT and dole it out over the year.

With oil you pump it out as you need it. How inefficient would it be to pump ALL the oil the world needs for the entire year in one month and have to store it.
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