an idea

Jul. 20th, 2006 07:57 am
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I read something the other day that said that if we started converting to running cars on corn-based ethanol, there wouldn't be enough corn to feed people.

To which I say, there's a solution. Stop putting high fructose corn syrup in everything, and use the corn for ethanol instead. That should also help some with the American obesity issue. (Why in hell does sausage need to have corn syrup in it, anyway?)

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Date: 2006-07-20 01:51 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] scirocco.livejournal.com
Not that against ethanol in theory, but I've also heard the argument that even if we used ALL THE CORN in the US to make Ethanol, it would only satisfy about 20% of our need for oil/gasoline anyway. *sigh*

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Date: 2006-07-20 05:01 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] biophile6.livejournal.com
Its pretty inefficient, yeah.

Cant we just take subsidy corn, and do reforming on that? It could fill some gap. Maybe water it down with switchgrass into a soup that can ferment.

Yum.

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Date: 2006-07-20 05:15 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] scirocco.livejournal.com
Winos siphoning "gas" to drink. Marvelous. :P

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Date: 2006-07-20 06:03 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] biophile6.livejournal.com
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