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NNN0LHI

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Fri Jun-18-10 06:05 PM
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Is ethanol the 21st century version of the perpetual motion machine?

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Edited on Fri Jun-18-10 06:07 PM by NNN0LHI

It takes more than one unit of energy to produce one unit of energy of ethanol doesn't it?

I notice there has been a big push on TV for ethanol since the Gulf mess.

But to a thinking person isn't it all BS?

Making ethanol uses more energy to make it than it produces doesn't it?

Where is the gain?

Don

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