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To: Oral Roberts who wrote (164602)	4/27/2006 7:00:08 AM
From: tbancroft	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 794009

I have a hard time listening to someone from a non ag college, sorry. He may know grapes, wine and alternate lifestyles, but I doubt the guy knows one end of a cow from another and knows even less about corn and the corn growing area. You're probably right about his knowledge of corn, which isn't his field of expertise. <g> The primary concern is I would have is with the energy required to create the ethanol. If it is to be truly beneficial, then no petroleum-based fuel should be needed to make the ethanol because you should be able to use the ethanol to fuel the process (maybe even the fuel needed for the tractor used in growing and harvesting the corn). I'm surely not expressing it very well, but somehow it makes me think the proposal is a lot like a perpetual motion machine... I guess I'm strongly influenced by the line of thinking expressed very well in some of the articles Lindy has posted which recognize that the biggest contribution to meeting energy needs would come from opening the ANWR fields and allowing offshore drilling nearer the coast of our country. I'm not at all averse to using ethanol to supplement oil, but it can be a red herring leading us away from the more promising solutions. Tim