"N8N" wrote in message
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On Nov 12, 1:10 pm, wrote:
On Thu, 11 Nov 2010 09:47:42 -0800 (PST), N8N
wrote:

Now that is only true for the US; in South
America where you can grow sugar cane it definitely is worthwhile to
use ethanol instead of gasoline.

... as long as you don't mind the ecological destruction. Brazil is
draining coastal wetlands and burning the rain forest to grow sugar
cane.

well, yeah, there's that. But the point that I was making is that you
could theoretically run all your farm equipment on ethanol and still
have some left over to sell, not making any judgements about other
environmental effects that may be equally as undesirable as simply
wasting fuel to grow fuel.


http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/...othe r&st=cse
November 12, 2010, 4:29 pm

A Verdict on Controlled Oil Burns and Cancer Risk
By LESLIE KAUFMAN
Fumes from oil burned by spill-response teams in the Gulf of Mexico did not
contain enough cancer-causing chemicals to pose a risk to human health, two
new studies from the Environmental Protection Agency conclude.


A controlled burn in the vicinity of the leaking BP well in June.The reports
are the latest in a series suggesting that some of the lingering effects of
the BP spill and cleanup have been milder than feared.

As the slick from the Deepwater Horizon accident threatened Louisiana's
delicate shoreline in the spring and summer, government regulators carried
out 411 controlled burns along with other mop-up techniques, the agency
said. The burns consumed 222,000 to 313,000 barrels of oil, the government
estimates.