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Re: takes 1.5 gallons gasoline to produce 1 gallon ethanol in modern ag

Subject: Re: takes 1.5 gallons gasoline to produce 1 gallon ethanol in modern agriculture
From: Pooh Bear
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 21:37:25 +0100
Newsgroups: sci.agriculture, sci.energy, sci.chem

roy wrote:

> A better alternative is tapioca (cassava), and organic farming.
>
> Using grains for producting ethanol will jack up grain prices
> world-wide and badly hit the poor who could not afford even one meal a
> day.

Since organic farming produce barely half the crop that intensive farming does.
there'll be a  heck of alot more problems than price to wory about if it's
practiced more widely !

Graham


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