On Mon, 04 Feb 2008 18:21:16 +1100, Kwyjibo blathered on in :
> "Mad-Biker" <madbiker666@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> "jackbadger56" <castle56@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
>> news:504f4aff-57a3-480b-
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>>> It seems that if a manufacturer can make a car run on E85, they've
>>> earned an official 'green' tag. AFAIK cars running on this still
>>> produce greenhouse gases (is that right?), there are stuff-all places
>>> selling the ****, a tank seems to take you half the distance, and if
>>> everyone switched over to it there'd be no sugar/corn/potatoes/alpaca
>>> goats or whatever they're currently deriving it from left to eat, and
>>> the only way to make up the shortfall of farming land would involve
>>> clearing on a massive scale!
>>> Another bloody red herring!!
>
>> yeah, but its renewable, that's what they were after.
>>
>> If look at India, they have vehicles than can run on 100% ethanol, and
>> have somehow modified regular vehicles to run 50% ethanol
>>
>>
> He's got a point about the impact it will have on farming though. The
> World Health Organisation (and UN generally) have expressed similar
> concerns. When the price of oil makes it more profitable for farmers to
> grow oil crops rather than food crops, guess what most of the worlds
> arable land will be turned over to.........
Hooch?
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Toby
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