Re: national hypocrisy



On Sun, 15 Apr 2007 21:40:33 GMT, "Sergeant Stedanko"
<sergeantstedanko@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Stephen Cowell wrote:

FYI there is NOT enough arable land to produce enough ethonal for
america much less the rest of the planet

Ethanol can be made from cellulose... a large part
of our garbage can be recycled into fuel.

Not that you'll ever see this since I refuse to cross-post to 15
newsgroups, but:

The issue is the amount of energy burned in the conversion. Converting
grain, or cellulose to ethanol burns so much energy that the exercise
is useless.

That grain is much better used to feed people.

Which we could feed to poor needy immigrants !

Right after which we could hook them up to Chinese-style
taxis, the ones they pull around ! That would solve the fuel
consumption problem of cars, too !


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