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Gold/Mining/Energy : Big Dog's Boom Boom Room

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From: Think4Yourself7/23/2006 10:06:44 PM
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Question for the thread: How much water does a typical refinery use to process a barrel of oil? Saw the below quote on an ethanol thread. The ethanol special interests spew so many lies and disinformation that I have come to doubt anything they say.

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"Nebraska Corn Board Executive Director Don Hutchens says he’s been dealing a lot lately with ethanol industry critics. He says one of the issues that has cropped up in the last few weeks is a controversy over how much water it takes to produce ethanol.

Hutchens says it’s true that it takes about three gallons of water to produce a gallon of ethanol. But Hutchens says his staff researched how much water it takes to refine a barrel of oil, and found it takes 1,561 gallons to do so."
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