Lets burn Democrats for fuel instead...
Led my Chevy to the field, but tanks were dry...
Just how much more starch should most Americans have in their diets?
I hope I hope I hope..Its KUDZU..I might be rich..got acres of the stuff...
“The disadvantages to cassava and sweet potato are higher start-up costs due primarily to increased labor at planting and harvesting times.”
We don’t need labor intensive fuel production, which would be more stoop labor in the fields. And where might such labor come from? I’m sure any corporation producing fuel from root crops would want the cheapest labor possible.
“A separate study by Ziska and colleagues also found that wild kudzu—an aggressive vine species imported from Asia to control soil erosion—stands in Alabama and Georgia could produce 5 to 10 tons of carbohydrate per hectare, which would rival carbohydrate production from corn and sugar cane...”
Might be a good possibility, and would be a machinery intensive crop, harvested about like hay for which it has been used.
What an awful graph. Where’s algae? Where’s jatropha?
Silly scientists, thinking that ethanol fuel is about “energy yield” or “gallons per acre” or any other quantifiable scientific parameter:
It’s all about farm subsidies for Iowa, the first state to have a presidential “caucus” - why else would the subsidies be for corn???
Congress doesn’t want subsidies for Alabama, currently a solid GOP state in Presidential elections!
Does anyone have any research results on switchgrass or cellulosic ethanol that they could send to these food-burning whackos?
Maryland “Freak State” PING!
/thinks about the increase in sweet potatos prices and want to cry.
My favorite food.
~~ping~~