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"HeyBub" wrote:

Doug Miller wrote:
"Malcom \"Mal\" Reynolds" wrote in
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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.

And the US does not permit the importation of Brazilian ethanol.

which has nothing to do with the fact that it is energy positive