Hi All:
___I think the question do “Biofuels provide less energy than their production requires.” is answered best by the following:
The Next Petroleum
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Super-efficient Brazil now sells ethanol at the equivalent of $25 dollars a barrel, less than half the cost of crude. What's more, because parts of the sugar-cane plant are used both to fertilize the fields and to fire up the distilleries, Brazil uses much less fossil fuel to produce alcohol than Europe and America.
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___Although I cannot stand Ethanol in my fuel today as it reduces my overall FE, if Ethanol can be purchased for $25.00 per on the open market, that means ~ 1.10 per gallon at the pump. I can deal with 20% less FE if my actual fuel costs < ˝ of what I am paying now! Read the rest of the story on how we will all be fleeced with the BS situation in the US. The powers that be can produce more Ethanol from what most would call garbage Switchgrass here in the states then Corn but the Farm lobby (not the farmers themselves mind you but ADM and Cargill) will not have anything to do with that now, will they
___Peak Oil is solved with a little help from Mother Nature. Now all we have to do is let Ethanol in like we do crude. Would you rather give our trillion’s in petrol $’s to Venezuela and the rest of OPEC for a non-renewable GHG emitting mess or just 60% as much to Brazil for a far less GHG intensive and renewable fuel? Ticks me off just thinking about it!
___I picked this story up off of EVWorld.com if that matter to most folks.
___Good Luck
___Wayne R. Gerdes
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Waynegerdes@earthlink.net