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Non-Tech : $2 or higher gas - Can ethanol make a comeback? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ish who wrote (2338)	2/25/2007 3:12:37 PM
From: Think4Yourself	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 2801

Mexico is the country complaining about corn prices. I believe they were getting all our excess corn cheap in the past. The situation is rapidly becoming that there is no excess corn anymore. The food is being converted to fuel for our vehicles. Your comments on oil and protein in corn intrigued me so went and grabbed a can. There actually IS a significant amount of protein in the kernels (4 grams per cup). There is also a trace amount of oil (2 grams per cup). Now I am wondering what the processing of the corn to ethanol does to the protein. The process uses a lot of heat and heat strings out proteins, making them less digestable. The protein in raw corn is probably highly digestable. Does the waste product have any usable protein in it? I am also wondering, from a farming standpoint, what happens to the soil after a few years of corn farming on it. I am not a farmer but it seems to me that planting corn year after year would strip an awful lot of nutrients out of the ground, making the crop almost entirely dependent on manufactured fertilizer.