EatMe wrote:
> With all due respect I would like to know where the fertilizer comes
> from that grows the corn? Isn't it a petrochemical based product?
Are you suggesting that *fertiliser* is what the plant actually consumes
to grow ?
I suggest you learn something about how plants grow. They existed before
fertiliser you know !
> Isn't there a net energy loss in the production of ethanol as an
> alternative fuel, i.e., planting, fertilizing, growing and harvesting
> require more than a gallon of oil to produce a gallon of ethanol?
Not sure offhand but no different for gasoline if so. In fact, I looked
at some of those kind of figures a while back and gasoline fared very
badly.
Viewing production of a fuel in terms relative to the fuel's energy
content is 'poor science' anyway. At least until someone invents an
engine that runs on 'pure energy' there will have to be a fuel used !
Graham
