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    • Thu Mar 20th 00:43 AM | Rating: 0 0
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      Pacific Ethanol: Juicy Details From Tuesday's 10-K
      The correct percentage for Brazil's share of ethanol for auto fuel is 40%, not 60%. Their population is much smaller than ours and is considerably more clustered within the large cities. They have excellent petroleum supplies, without which their 40% ethanol for their population would not meet their fuel needs. Cutting down carbon storing rainforests to plant sugarcane does not reduce levels of greenhouse gases. Nor does using what is basically slave labor meet human rights standards. Brazil is incorrectly looked upon as an example. Those who have visited it recently, like Representative Lois Capp, have talked about the poor air quality in the cities as well. This is no panacea, nor is cellulosic looking like it can soon be marketed at a price that makes it affordable to manufacture. Two more years of corn ethanol can certainly negatively impact the dairy farmers, and the cost of other grains which are now in short supply because they are being displaced by water and fertilizer intensive corn. This has the makings of a serious problem for many people on low and fixed incomes. Even in the midwest where corn is king, there are serious impacts of fertilizer runoff into the rivers and down into the Gulf of Mexico where there is an ever growing dead zone because of the corn crop.
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    • Thu Mar 20th 00:31 AM | Rating: 0 0
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      Pacific Ethanol: Juicy Details From Tuesday's 10-K
      This is the company that the State of California gave a 15 million dollar tax break, and a grant for $25 million. We need to contact our legislators and say enough subsidizing the already subsidized Pacific Ethanol. Just because Bill Jones has strong ties to the Governor's office should not, in this time of budget crisis, mean that we throw precious dollars in the direction of Pacific Ethanol.
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