Re: OT: Gas warning

thumper wrote:

In article <1176574454.232052.141920@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
jgoska@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:


"Yahoo News - Associated Press 14 Apr 07: 114 U.S. ethanol
biorefineries are in operation. Producers made nearly 5 billion
gallons of ethanol last year. Nearly all of it was made from edible
corn. Corn prices have nearly doubled over the last two years and
will continue to climb. Scientists are engineering microscopic bugs
to extract fuel from a variety of non-corn sources, including the
human urinary tract."


If you see the oil companies coming, run.


LOL! I work in this area- fermentation to make various products, and it's always, um, interesting to see the way the words end up in the news. Like any technology, I guess. Several years ago, we had a reporter from the Wall Street Journal in my lab, and I thought I made perfect sense until I saw the article :-O

Anyway, if peeing in my gas tank would get me more miles per gallon, I suppose I could make the sacrifice.

Take care,
Lisa

It'd be a two stage operation for you though.

Sorry.

MJRB
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