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Originally Posted by NeilBlanchard
Lessee, there's the natural gas that goes into the fertilizer, the pesticides that come from petroleum, the diesel that moves the tractor all through the growing season, and the harvester, and the truck, the energy that is used in the ethanol plant, and then the truck to get it to the refinery, then the truck again to get it to the fuel stations -- and then there is the small matter of the 50 gallons of water per mile to get the ethanol, too. |
If there wasn't a net profit for everyone in the chain, we wouldn't have ethanol, or its high protein feed byproducts.