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To: Eric who wrote (23221)	9/8/2010 11:28:48 AM
From: Brumar89	2 Recommendations Respond to of 86356

.. it's unlikely wind or solar will meet more than 2 percent of the world's energy needs even 25 years from now. ..... For every megawatt-hour of electricity generated in 2008, solar received federal subsidies of $24.34. Wind power got $23.37. Natural gas? A mere 25 cents. ....... Ethanol, after all, has been underwritten by the government for 30 years and still isn't profitable on its own. What's more, ethanol is inefficient, because it takes more energy to produce than it generates. ...... chron.com