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[KNat <knat AT sprintmail.com>]

Clansgian AT wmconnect.com wrote:
> Energy-wise ethanol is indeed busy work.  But in another way it is far more 
> destructive.  If we simply burned the petrol in our cars, we'd still have some 
> topsoil and water with which to grow food, even if we had to do it by less 
> mechanical means.  The way it is going we are going to end up out of gas and food 
> at the same time.   
>   
In climate impact there is some advantage to using renewable vs 
geosequestered biomass just in releasing only modern carbons that would 
be impacting currently anyway. But to chose to fuel a car to go to a gym 
and walk on a treadmill instead of eating just boggles my mind.
Releasing ancient carbon doesn't seem to me a way to preserve 
growability. This climate change is already affecting growing, big time.

Kathyann