Next message: Arild Jensen: "RE: lv-ab: Ethanol"
wrote:
> Hello All,
> Ok. I am wondering why we are using corn to
> produce ethanol?
> After all, sugar is a better way of making it, we
> are currently paying HUGELY subsidized prices for
> sugar, sugar beets cost less to grow than corn,
> and you get more ethanol per pound of sugar than
> you can from 5 pounds of corn.
>
The grain lobby (ADM, Cargil, etc) has been working on ethanol
conversion for years, the sugar lobby hasn't.
Lew
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