Times takes the other side and, for a change, looks into the costs of corn as fuel.
Ethanol not quite all it's cracked up to be as the answer.
My humble opinion, ethanol from "waste" maybe, but I have severe doubts of explicitly growing a crop as a fuel source.
Corn Power Put to the Test - New York Times:
"The endless fields of corn in the Midwest can be distilled into endless gallons of ethanol, a clean-burning, high-octane fuel that could end any worldwide oil shortage, reduce emissions that cause global warming, and free the United States from dependence on foreign energy.
There is only one catch: Turning corn into ethanol takes energy. For every gallon that an ethanol manufacturing plant produces, it uses the equivalent of almost two-fifths of a gallon of fuel (usually natural gas), and that does not count the fuel needed to make fertilizer for the corn, run the farm machinery or truck the ethanol to market. "
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