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To: one_less who wrote (541113)	2/16/2004 5:30:33 PM
From: E	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Hi, Jewel. The fellow who posted the argument between the engineer who's a consultant for the National Corn Growers' Association and Pimentel about the energy-efficiency of ethanol production ended the page I linked to by making a similar, or at least related, point: " (3) Given that ethanol production involves the conversion of massive amounts of energy from one form to another, the contention that the process is an efficient way to make fuel seems to fly in the face of basic physics--so much so that I'm inclined to regard the subsidy program, and the fact that it has survived for a quarter century, with something approaching awe. Money-wasting government schemes are hardly rare. But how many do you know of that flout the second law of thermodynamics?"