I've mentioned here before I'm not too enthusiastic about ethanol, especially when corn is used to make it. My concerns are more along the line of corn being what's known as a heavy feeder, in gardening circles, requiring lots of fertilizer and draining the soil of nutrients.
The Sacramento Bee takes a look at ethanol from another angle this morning: What would the growing of all that corn for ethanol do to the state's water supplies? I don't know that I'd really thought of that until now.
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Ethanol is not a good answer to energy shortage.
ReplyDeleteHope you don't mind, thought you'd be interested. Utter madness.
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A. Its been shown that refining corn into Alcohol uses more energy than you get from the alcohol.
ReplyDeleteB. Kinda of like driving a hybrid, it makes us feel better about ourselves.
C. Maybe the supporters of cornahol should be forced to buy carbon credits.
Mini-retraction, not that anyone cares...
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