"Daniel J. Stern" wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Dec 2005, Pooh Bear 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 !
> >>
> >> Evasive non-answer. Farming *as practised today* is a very
> >> oil-intensive process.
> >
> > It doesn't *have* to be.
>
> Perhaps not, but the fact remains that right now, today, it IS.
Fact is that ethanol needn't be made just from corn though.
In Sweden they're using wood waste. I don't see anyone using fertiliser on
trees. Many types of bio-matter can be used to make ethanol in fact.
Graham
