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

On Thu, 22 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.

Another evasive nonresponse. Most fuel ethanol in North America is made 
from corn, which is farmed and processed using huge amounts of petroleum 
products.