Re: Where are the diesels?

jim wrote:



The people you have been talking to are idiots. It does take about as much
energy to produce a bushel of corn as the energy recovered by producing
ethanol from that bushel. But what is being overlooked is that the
by-product of producing the ethanol is a high protein feed. That
by-product is still worth 80% of the original value of the bushel of corn. Your same logic could be applied to oil. A barrel of oil costs $100 but
you only get $90 worth of gasoline from that barrel. Therefore it isn't
worth pumping the oil out of the ground. Of course the fallacy is that you
have completely overlooked the other $450 worth of products produced from
each barrel of oil.


If this were true we would not have all the livestock people grousing about the cost of feed. Milk now probably costs more than gasoline.
There is considerable disagreement in the technical community about the efficiency of making fuel from corn. When you bring the added cost of effect on prices for food and other derived items, it is probably negative.
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