Feed SUVs and Starve People?
Maybe I shouldn't buy a car now...
"...it takes 450 pounds of corn to make enough ethanol to fill a 25-gallon gas tank. Four hundred and fifty pounds of corn supplies enough calories to feed a person for one year. The USDA projects that in 2010 the ethanol industry will consume 2.6 billion bushels of corn. A bushel weighs 56 pounds, so a quick calculation yields the result that 2.6 billion bushels of corn could supply enough calories to feed nearly 325 million people for a year."
posted by Paul at
11:47 AM
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On the subject of burning food, see here:
http://gravitron5.blogspot.com/2007/06/random-thoughts-on-environmentalism.html
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Avenging Sword, at 5:13 PM, June 27, 2007
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