alt.energy.renewable

Anthony Matonak wrote:
> Tom wrote:
>> I may be missing something here, but why use corn for ethanol
>> production and not sugar beet?
>>
>> Here in the UK sugar cane will not grow, but thousands of acres of
>> sugar beet is grown (mostly for cattle feed)
>>
>> Why not use sugar beet for ethanol production?
>
> Here in the United States they grow a lot more corn than they can ever
> sell. I agree that it's not the best crop to make into fuel but if
> you've got lots of it sitting around spoiling, you might as well do
> something with it.
>
> Anthony

That is no longer the case. Corn is becoming short and the price is
rising because of ethanol. So converting to a better crop would make
more sense now to get a higher yield per acre. Corn is poor for fuel.
Sunflowers are best for biodiesel because you get lots of sunflower oil
from their seeds. Used cooking grease is getting short also and mostly
corn oil. Our legislators should pull the corn cobs out of their asses
and start waking up. We are blocking the importation of sugar cane and
have a high tariff on ethanol from Brazil.

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