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Originally Posted by sendler
Agribusiniss consumes 15% of primary energy. So about 2.5 TeraWatt? There is no feasible way to convert this much energy to biofuel. And even if we did find enough land and equipment to use this, the very poor ER/ EI of biofuel compared with the 20:1 we are currently getting from oil would increase the cost of goods 4X and wreck the economy.
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If all the arable land presently devoted to E10 Regular Unleaded gasoline ethanol production were diverted to biodiesel production for farm equipment,would that be a step towards providing liquid fuels for agribusiness?