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To: Big Bucks who wrote (2721)	2/13/2006 3:41:43 PM
From: Rock_nj	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 16955

Maybe we could turn part of New Orleans into a sugar cane farm? Seriously, there are parts of that city that should be returned to agricultural uses, so when the water returns, nobody will be hurt. I'm kind on the fence regarding ethanol. I know it's not as bad as some the status-quoers are saying and not as good as the proponents are saying. I have read that ethanol can be made more energy dense, but I'm not sure how?!? As it is now, ethanol only has 70% of the energy content per gallon vs. gasoline and that is one of the reasons it comes up short in some estimations regarding whether ethanol is a net energy producer. If they could make longer chains of ethanol atoms without much expense, it could improves the economics of making ethanol. Perhaps solar could be used to make the chains longer and ethanol more energy dense, thus tapping a renewable energy source to do the dirty work and elimating these arguments that ethanol uses too much petroleum.