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

They must have gotten more efficient because when they started this whole 
subsidised ethanol thing, our teen group investigated it and came up with 
1.25 to 1.5 gallons to produce a gallon.

Lynda
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <paxamicus AT earthlink.net>


> I heard Michael Pollan on The Kitchen Sisters the other day, and he
> said something astounding, paraphrase is that it takes 3/4 of a gallon
> of oil to produce 1 gallon of ethanol.
>
> Not what you were asking, really, but interesting and in the same
> vein. I don't know if it's accurate.