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Old 04-21-2011, 02:38 PM
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ETHANOL!! WHAT A DEAL!!

-costs more to produce a gallon of ethanol than a gallon of gasoline-
-gallon of ethanol has about 85% of the energy of a gallon of gasoline-
-your fed. govt. subsidizes the production of ethanol with your tax dollars-
-every kernal of corn used to make ethanol drives up the price of any food products made with corn-
-ethanol is death on any open fuel system (currently spending $400+ to repair the fuel system on my outboard motor)-


WHAT COULD BE B ETTER THAN YOUR GOVERMNMENT AT WORK!!!!
agreed......look at food labels, how many are sweetened with "high fructose corn syrup"? When the price of corn went up, the farmers are forced to feed other grains to livestock, so the price of all other grains went up substanially too! Corn > ethanol is taking food off of our table, either directly or indirectly.

And, corn > ethanol is NOT sustainable for the long term. Maybe with switchgrass or some other feed stock. Time will tell.
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