Re: Shell's 100-RON fuel - what actually is it?

Pooh Bear <rabbitsfriendsandrelations@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:

> "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.
>

More than 80% of the ethanol used for E85 in Sweden is im****ted from
Brazil! How's that for environment friendliness?

> Graham
>
>

Thomas