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On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 09:10:30AM -0700, Lew Hodgett wrote:
> 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.
There's a sugar lobby in the US? I thought that ever since the Cuban
revolution, sugar has existed only as a consumer good, and consequently
can't really build much of a lobby.
Cheers,
Kris
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