Re: 10% Ethanol in Gas

Steve <no@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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C. E. White wrote:

"Steve" <no@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message

Thank you ever so much, "environmentalists." But I have no doubt
that they'll find a way to put the blame on something other than the
corn surge due to ethanol....


You mean like municipal waste treatment plants?

Who knows, but they'll find something that they aren't responsible for
and then lobby to shut it down.


Now as for crop land being converted to corn...converted from what?
There is very little crop land in the Mississippi river system that
isn't already devoted to either corn, cotton, or wheat. All of these
crops get similar amounts of nitrogen fertilizer.

They GET similar amounts, but the claim is that much more runs off from
corn than the others and winds up in the river.

That is not proven to be true at all. Nitrogen runoff from corn has
dramaticly dropped per acre in the last 10 years as nitrogen use per acre
has dropped as better research and cost of nitrogen has changed. what
really chafts my britches is town and city people fertilizing there
worthless lawns with 10 times the amount of fert. I use per acre. My crop
has value, your lawn is worthless other than the O2 it produces. Also
more pesticides are dumped on lawns at a incorect rate that most all the
farms. KB




I am not sure that ethanol is the answer, but I also think that the
anti-ethanol lobby is lying through their collective teeth. I know who
is funding the pro-ethanol lobby. Who is funding the anti-ethanol
lobby? I'd say follow the money......Who stands to loose the most if
ethanol displaces a significant amount of foreign oil?

I don't know that there IS an anti-ethanol lobby, per se. I certainly
can't make it add up to being a winner just by balancing energy
in/energy out and considering the amount of cropland displaced for more
corn. Too bad we CAN'T really use sugar cane, but the climate is what
it
is. Hey, maybe if we can get a little more global warming going, we
will
be able to grow sugar in Iowa! :-p


Oh yea sign me up. I could stand some heat about now. KB







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