Re: Couple of new articles: even more impact on barley prices could

F. George McDuffee wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Dec 2007 18:23:34 GMT, "Brian Bartz"
> <nasacpa@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 
>> Corn ethanol is bad news.  When you figure out the amount of energy
that 
>> goes into getting the ethanol, the deal doesn't make much sense.
> ===============
> Indeed, from a strictly "up front" or current effeciency/economic
> standpoint it does not, however not everything is [or should be]
> evaluated on the factors of current "efficiency" and "economics."
[snip]

Interesting -- but aren't there crops significantly 'denser' in energy 
than corn? I'm thinking specifically of sugar cane here. Or is corn king 
because we have more suitable land for growing corn than cane?

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