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  • Ethanol's Persecution Complex: To Rehabilitate Its Image, It Must Understand the Issues [View article]
    I'm amazed that the discussion of ethanol never mentioned sugar as the prime raw material. brazil has already proven that as fact, haven't they?
    Jun 23 23:50 pm |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment
  • Ethanol's Persecution Complex: To Rehabilitate Its Image, It Must Understand the Issues [View article]
    Just what is normal - average? I think not.


    On Jun 19 07:33 AM redbaron wrote:

    > 'The enemy of the human race, as Jim Hansen says, is coal'
    >
    > The enemy of corn ethanol fuel production growth is cost, IMHO. Ethanol
    > fuel production, using the currently availble model, will not succede
    > unless the cost of production can be reduced. And further, any future
    > developed ethanol fuel production success, will also be based on
    > it's future cost of production. If you can't make it cheap enough
    > when oil is in this price range and natural gas is this cheap, then
    > how will you ever compete if these same inputs return to more 'normal'
    > levels. This will not work unless you can drive the cost of production
    > much lower without further gov't subsidies.
    Jun 23 23:49 pm |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment
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