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To: Fred

This article gave me a headache. I can’t deal with all these metric numbers so early in the morning.


20 posted on 04/14/2008 5:35:47 AM PDT by Condor51 (I have guns in my nightstand because a Cop won't fit)
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To: Condor51
"..The UN says it takes 232kg of corn to fill a 50-litre car tank with ethanol. That is enough to feed a child for a year"

Ok, here are conversions

232 kg = 510 lb approx (used 2.2 lb per kg)
50 litre = 13 gals. (1 gal = 3.785 litres)

The ROI is just not there. The energy output alone to grow that much corn blows the ROI..
22 posted on 04/14/2008 1:13:20 PM PDT by Fred (The Democrat Party is the Nadir of Nilhilism)
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