On 3/20/2011 12:30 PM, k-nuttle wrote:
On 3/20/2011 1:13 PM, dpb wrote:
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_terrible_ short term use of natural gas, btw, that will undoubtedly
come to haunt in the (not so distant) future as heating costs continue
to rise...

All in all, free fuel ain't so free after all...

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That should not come as a problem for those who believe they are saving
the planet by converting their food to Alcohol, to burn in their cars.

They are the one who are also clamoring about the high CO2 content in
the atmosphere, while they refuse to admit that chemically Alcohol
generates twice the CO2 as gasoline. One when fermented + one when burned.

They don't count that as it is all assumed to be reabsorbed by the next
growing cycle.

The real issue out here imo (and it has nothing to do w/ whether one
raises irrigated corn, soybeans, milo, wheat, whatever) is that
irrigation at current levels isn't sustainable w/ an essentially
non-renewing reservoir so that water is mined just as if it were oil,
gas, gold...

It's roughly 2-3000 gal/bu to raise 200-bu corn; the water for the
ethanol conversion is additional (but smaller, relatively, in comparison
although certainly not insignificant).

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