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Old 03-15-2011, 03:34 AM   #137 (permalink)
alvaro84
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Today I made an experimental (and kind of illegal) shortcut with a little offroad, I saved ~1km worth of gas, which won't really affect my average, but it's good if we see the big picture

Tripmeter is at 459km now, today I'll fill up (I wrote that my 'tank finished' when low fuel light came out - I calculate light to light, not fill to fill.)

<OT>I read some more, it seems that mostly corn and wheat are used in Hungary. TTT, we produce a lot of them, but most of it is exported and now flour is like 60% more expensive than a year ago. And it's not because of the ethanol production, but someones' stupidity and greed... Yet declaring that an area is for ethanol production and the other one is for food doesn't change the fact that food could be produced on the land used for ethanol crops. It's OK as long as we don't need more food, but the best really would be to grow energy crops only where we can't grow food (and the area is already used for agriculture), because of the lower quality of the soil - and to use waste, of course.</OT>
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