Posted by =^..^= Kansas Usually it is cheaper too although even if it wasn't, I might still buy it if it would liberate the United States somewhat from foreign oil. However, the prices may be rising due to a shortage of corn now with all these new plants coming on line. My boss hates all these ethanol plants. He feels they are taking away corn from the livestock business (ie: the food industry in his opinion). Not being veg, he doesn't realize the huge waste of energy caused by using that land to grow corn to feed to cattle in the first place. Also, it seems that ethanol consumes huge amounts of fossil fuels to produce. I believe they are considering the fossil fuels used to power the planting and harvesting equipment and also the fuel used to process the corn. I'm not sure if they are taking into account places that already process that corn now and make other things out of it besides the ethanol. There are all sorts of precursers (corn syrup, corn germ and corn oil, etc.) and by-products (stillage)made in the ethanol process that are used other places. Places that make strictly ethanol have to waste fossil fuels transporting these other places. Are they figuring that into their numbers? Sorry for the rambling thoughts. I am trying to figure out what I think of this stuff and put all my thoughts down in one place. What do you all do? Pamela, can you even get ethanol there?
on January 27, 2007, 1:00:33
I've been doing a little reading on it and I wondered what people thought. I usually chose it because I thought it was better for the environment. Now they are saying, greenhouse gas-wise it is no better than gasoline. Not sure if that figuring includes the gas/diesel used to process the corn or not.
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