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To: d[-_-]b who wrote (349866)9/6/2007 9:11:32 PM
From: bentway  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1587095
 
The whole "ethanol from corn" thing is a scam. It takes so much energy input to grow the corn and convert it to ethanol, it's a wash. It's just moving the subsidy from oil to corn.

With sugar cane, it works. But you've got to have a climate that will grow it.



To: d[-_-]b who wrote (349866)9/6/2007 10:19:49 PM
From: combjelly  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1587095
 
"Not sure what you're getting at here - the disconnect about Mid-West lobbies and the Southern or Hawaiian growers has me confused."

It is not so much the region as the products. Corn and wheat are the big crops, and they have the biggest lobbies. The corn farmers latched on to ethanol from corn and got legislation written to encourage it and blocked legislation for other sources of ethanol.


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