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See post 21 - It says exactly what I would say. I’d add that increased fertilizer runoff and corn’s extraordinary thirst for water (The Ogalalla Aquifer is running on empty) makes Corn Ethanol much, much worse than the ‘Problem’ it is designed to address.

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increased fertilizer runoff and corn’s extraordinary thirst for water

Personally I prefer butanol over ethanol as a gasoline substitute and/or additive but it is not ethanol that is the problem. The problem is that we are using a plant that is about as low as you can get on the old totem pole as far as energy yield per acre goes. Is this a big secret? No. Is there big money changing hands somewhere? You can bank on it.