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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (64076)	5/22/2005 8:30:03 PM
From: el_gaviero	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 74559

Maurice, I’m afraid that we have a disagreement about pure, brute facts. Synthetic fuels (from corn, sugar cane, etc) are unlikely to be net energy producers (as can be inferred from the fact that in the USA, they are only produced because they receive a subsidy. Were such not the case, they would have long ago been produced on the open market). <<People used to do energy balances instead of dollar balances. It was easy to cook the books with energy balances. Dollars are more precisely pinned down.>> Surely this is wrong, especially in an era of ag lobbies and hyper active government. You can make money making ethanol out of corn if the government kicks in --- but you’re not fooling the cops on the Physical Reality beat who enforce the laws of thermodynamics, and keep track of every little BTU.