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August 24, 2007     

The Hidden Agenda behind the Bush Administration's Bio-Fuel Plan

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Bush falsely claims that ethanol will reduce dependency on imported oil and cut unwanted 'greenhouse gas' emissions. His scheme to provide taxpayer subsidies for growing ethanol corn instead of feed corn is resulting in exploding food prices and disappearing food reserves. Yet, the truth is that net energy output from bio-ethanol fuel is less than the fossil fuel energy used to produce the ethanol.

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This has been very under-reported by Blue Pilgrim on Saturday, Aug 25, 2007 at 3:59:28 AM
The exergy ( second law) by Mark Sashine on Saturday, Aug 25, 2007 at 6:10:09 AM

 
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