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Posted by Don Klipstein on April 24, 2008, 8:48 pm
>Norminn wrote:
>> jtnospam@yahoo.com wrote:
>>>>
>> The second paragraph in any article about ethanol addresses the water
>> needed for processing. I
>> live where water has been an issue for a long time. What is truly scary
>> is that everyone and their
>> cousin is howling about the price of oil/gas, and yet not a word about
>> conserving. Not a word
>> about modernizing transport systems to haul trucks across the country by
>> rail rather than air or
>> interstate.
>> Of course, more expensive fuel and food might make some cut back and
>> help change the problem
>> with so many children becoming ill from obesity. Gardening is one of
>> the most enjoyable and healthy
>> activities I know of, but when one depends on it for food it might not
>> be as relaxing. Don't bother with
>> Japanese beetle traps - just pluck them off and kill 'em.
>
>Use of fuel for food is pure stupidity. Studies have shown that the
>fuel you get out is about equal to the energy you put in.
Although you raise other valid points, the lack of energy gain is now
mainly rumor that keeps getting passed on rather than truth. It was
supported by one study since debunked for assuming that all corn
production requires irrigation.
- Don Klipstein (don@misty.com)
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