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To: d[-_-]b who wrote (349888)	9/6/2007 11:21:08 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1587223

"Really - do you have proof of this?" I'd have to dig up a link. I will post it when I find it. "It's not just simple economics?" Anything but. Corn isn't economical for ethanol production when you the fertilizer and the shipping. Even if you don't it is only barely energy positive. All these issues were gone over during the 1970s during the Arab oil embargo. The corn farmers pushed really hard on using corn. It made little headway because the economics just don't work out. Sugarcane is better, but isn't a magic bullet by any means. And it has certain issues that need to be addressed like bagasse.

To: d[-_-]b who wrote (349888)	9/11/2007 6:46:51 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1587223

and blocked legislation for other sources of ethanol Really - do you have proof of this? That's right. Corn was to be the sole source for ethanol. However, they are starting to realize the mess they have created.....higher corn prices, higher meat prices and a very limited resource [corn] so they are looking at other plant material to create ethanol. BTW it took a Dem. Congress this year to reopen the issue. "It was a scant two years ago that Georgia's Saxby Chambliss voted with 73 other giddy senators for an energy bill that required the nation to use 7.5 billion gallons of ethanol. Georgia's farmers loved corn-based ethanol; Georgia's agri-businesses loved corn-based ethanol; and all that meant that then-Agriculture Committee Chairman Chambliss loved corn-based ethanol, too." opinionjournal.com