[PLUG-TALK] The Keith Effect - Lightbulb factories closing

Rich Shepard rshepard at appl-ecosys.com
Fri Oct 5 21:27:13 UTC 2007


On Fri, 5 Oct 2007, Jeme A Brelin wrote:

> You have people now pushing corn-produced ethanol as though it doesn't
> take way more oil to grow and transport corn in a modern agribusiness than
> it would take to fuel the vehicles getting the ethanol.

   Not only is corn-based ethanol more expensive (the plants that produce it
generate more pollution than ethanol in gasolene saves), it is less
efficient than other ethanol sources (e.g., sugar cane stalks). But,
politics rules.

   Oh, well.

Rich

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