Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote: On Apr 26, 2008, at 8:18 PM, Michael Pollak wrote:
> On Sat, 26 Apr 2008, Doug Henwood wrote:
>
>> [from Mike Allen's Politco Playbook - an SUV tank full of 100%
>> ethanol uses enough corn to feed 450 people for a year]
>
> I wonder how they compute that stat?
Oh, wow, did my memory play tricks on me! Sorry.
It's the number of acres that amount of corn-based ethanol takes out of production.
BW
benjamin-senauer/how-biofuels-could-starve-the-poor.html>
> How Biofuels Could Starve the Poor
> C. Ford Runge and Benjamin Senauer
> From Foreign Affairs, May/June 2007
>
>
> Filling the 25-gallon tank of an SUV with pure ethanol requires
> over 450 pounds of corn -- which contains enough calories to feed
> one person for a year.
That's still appalling.
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