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  • From: Harvey Ussery <huboxwood@earthlink.net>
  • To: livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Wheat is the new oil
  • Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 12:29:33 +0000

Thanks for passing this on, Paul.

A minor quibble with the author's thesis, tho not news to most on this list:

A big question mark has to be put next to ethanol fuels, except those made
from crop wastes.

It is *not* the case that biofuels from corn & grain are wasteful, but it's okay to produce them from "crop wastes." Going down that path means never returning "crop wastes" to agricultural soils, means the continuing loss of humus from soils, means continuing industrial agriculture as more mining operation than farming.

~Harvey
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