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The biggest single engine in the production of ethanol is solar energy.
One seed is transformed into 500. Using free solar energy. Farmers drive across the fields 2-4 times a year with their efficient diesel powered equipment. Ethanol producers are springing up in the farming areas so that the transportation costs are minimized.
In the central part of the country there are millions of acres of fairly flat, fertile ground. For the most part there is not irrigation used and rain fall is plentiful. Every year a new crop is grown using the power of the sun and the rain. One of the major biproducts of ethanol production is gluton. Cattle love eating.
Most critics of ethanol live in cities and have never driven all day past fields of corn and other products, they are strictly consumers not producers. It is very humbling to see the vastness of this country and the efficiency of it's production.
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