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["Lynda" <lurine AT softcom.net>]

Your corn numbers are out of date.  Even mine are out of date but closer to 
current (2006) with 25% of the corn going to ethanol.  I don't have 2007 
numbers but they were expected to be higher.

And ethanol is a total waste when it is made from corn.  Corn ethenol is an 
extremely low BTU which is why MPGs are reduced when ethanol is added to 
fossil fuel and reduced even more with the higher the % of ethanol to 
fossil.

Of course, using something like switch grass which would produce a much 
higher BTU and thus better MPGs won't happen because that would feed the 
pockets of politicians OR big agri-business or any of the others sucking off 
the government subsidy trough.

Lynda
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Fred Enga, Astechman" <fenga AT astechman.com>


> In fact the ethanol/corn debate is skewed on the impact of ethanol on corn
> supplies
>
> In the United States, 57 percent of the corn crop is fed to animals. The
> livestock industry is the corn producers' leading customer. In 2003, beef
> cattle were fed more than 1.4 billion bushels of corn, while hogs consumed
> 1.1 billion bushels and poultry another 1.3 billion bushels.
>
> Eleven percent of U.S. corn production goes into ethanol, while another 19
> percent or 1.9 billion bushels is exported. The balance of the crop is 
> used
> for food, seed and industrial uses.