> But, we are seeing the bill. As the cost of oil has increased, there's > a push to switch to ethanol in the U.S. Even though the NAS has > pointed out that using all the corn crop would replace only 12% of our > oil consumption, we are still forging ahead. It's been estimated that > this year we will see about 20% of the corn crop used for ethanol > production. And things are just beginning to take off. What will > happen if we go to 40 or 50% of corn to ethanol? The price of corn is > already rising and all the meat that is grown with corn is also > starting to creep up in price. The ethanol producers say that making > ethanol also produces another ptoduct which can be used for animal > feed, but, the calories have been converted to ethanol.
Yes, but that bill is caused by Peak Oil, not global warming. If the price of corn rises so high that it cant be used for ethanol, then we will know that the climate has changed. > But, growth is good, according to Neocon economics.... And according to Adam Smith, but his ideas and those of the neocons are over 200 years out of date. BTW Eric have you see Bob Grmbine's maps recently at http://polar.ncep.noaa.gov/seaice/nh.html ? If you run the animation the ice edge is retreating from Svalbard rather than advancing as it should at this time of year! Cheers, Alastair. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Global Change ("globalchange") newsgroup. Global Change is a public, moderated venue for discussion of science, technology, economics and policy dimensions of global environmental change. Posts will be admitted to the list if and only if any moderator finds the submission to be constructive and/or interesting, on topic, and not gratuitously rude. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/globalchange -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
