Corn ethanol requires almost as much hydrocarbon energy for tillage, fertilizer, cultivation, pesticides, harvest, transportation, fermenting, distillation, and transportation as it contains when it arrives at the refinery for blending.
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Bing!
It’s just like saying let’s all drive electric cars. Electricity is magic and appears out of thin air!
Biofuel isn’t going to be cheaper to produce this year. Just the opposite.
I knew I should have bought up the empty land around Silver Peak, NV when I passed thru there in March of '63!
Green energy planning is much like the Cargo Cults on Pacific islands after WW II. It is based on saying the right incantations and producing the right symbolism and stuff will appear.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult
A cargo cult is an indigenist millenarian belief system, in which adherents perform rituals which they believe will cause a more technologically advanced society to deliver goods. These cults were first described in Melanesia in the wake of contact with allied military forces during the Second World War.
Isolated and pre-industrial island cultures that were lacking technology experienced soldiers and supplies arriving in large numbers, often by airdrop. The soldiers would trade with the islanders. After the war, the soldiers departed. Cargo cults arose, attempting to imitate the behaviors of the soldiers, thinking that this would cause the soldiers and their cargo to return.
Some cult behaviors involved mimicking the day-to-day activities and dress styles of soldiers, such as performing parade ground drills with wooden or salvaged rifles.