And it would be priced properly only if the farmers had to use the
fuel for the machinery to prepare the soil, sow the crop and harvest
it. A subsidy would (again) distort the market and perpetuate the
waste of energy.
Chris
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C M I Barker
Cambridgeshire, Great Britain.
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On 14 May 2006, at 06:20, Andrew Fildes wrote:
> Made from food?! What's wrong with waste? As I remember, US
> agriculture is extraordinarily greedy of conventional forms of
> energy. It already consumes more fuel energy than the food energy
> produced, a negative investment, so making it from a crop would be
> socially and environmentally disastrous - only govt. subsidy would
> make it profitable.
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