"Michael Pardee" <michaeltnull@cybertrails.com> wrote in
news:r_KdnatqnO-x6IDZnZ2dnUVZ_sCdnZ2d@sedona.net:

> "TeGGeR®" <tegger@tegger.c0m> wrote in message
> news:Xns978AB51E32DF7tegger@207.14.113.17...
>> 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.
>



And we'll never grow enough to satisfy automotive demand. Not unless we
plow all those forests back under.

The only reason there are more forests now in North America than there were
in 1920 is that we're not feeding all those work animals any more. Tens of
millions of acres were under the plow prior to 1920 solely to feed horses
and oxen.

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