"TeGGeR®" <tegger@tegger.c0m> wrote in message
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> Demand for ethanol is zero unless the government drives it via social-
> engineering tax policy. Ethanol is expensive and inefficient.
>
I guess we'll see soon enough. Lots of ethanol plants are coming on line in
the US - we are just short of 100 the last I heard. It is still expensive
and inefficient, but Paul Harvey (a farm products partisan) reports the
demand for feedstock has already raised the price of corn. Theoretically,
bacteriological converters will allow cellulose to be used for making
ethanol, but until then we are burning food... always a shaky idea.

Mike