In article ,
Doug Miller wrote:

"Malcom \"Mal\" Reynolds" wrote in
news:atlas-bugged-
:

In article ,
"Stormin Mormon" wrote:

Ethanol requires fossil fuels to plant, harvest, transport, distil. Last
time I looked, it's energy negative. Takes more energy to produce, than
what
you get back.

nit: that basically only applies to corn based ethanol. Brazil for some
eerie
reason is able to grow sugar cane and produce ethanol that is energy
positive

Won't work in the U.S., though, because the climate here won't support
production of sugar
cane on the scale required.

that would probably be news to florida

of course, if memory serves, there are other crops with higher yield per acre is
better than corn: sunchokes and hemp come to mind