ok, so is pimentel now using current data or not? if the answer is no, then the question becomes "is this chick legit?"
She's just fooled by the "current data" bit, like everyone else is. It is not current data, see the message I posted yesterday:
http://sustainablelists.org/pipermail/biofuel_sustainablelists.org/200 5-July/001738.html
[Biofuel] Cornell on ethanol, biodiesel, & hydrogen energy efficiencies http://snipurl.com/ghth
the blurb about corn syrup is pretty over the top.
Not really, the stuff is a disaster. HFCS certainly has much to do with the rising plague of obesity, and worse. "... introduced into the food system in the early 1980s", not quite accurate, as others are saying about corn as food, and it was really the trading system that it was introduced to, worldwide. This was just after sugar farmers among others in many 3rd World countries had been pushed by the World Bank et al into capital-intensive methods on the assurance of US market prices for sugar of around 25c, which dropped to 6c when HFCS got a foothold. Exit several 3rd World rural econonies, with resultant famines in some cases.
You should perhaps have a look at what Surgeon-Captain Cleave has to say about refined carbohydrates, and this was before the rise of HFCS:
http://journeytoforever.org/farm_library.html#cleave Best wishes Keith
-chris In a message dated 7/25/05 8:04:45 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: < . . .In any case, Pimentel's new report with Patzek is based on <current data and still reaches the same conclusion - ethanol uses <more energy than it yields. They say investments in solar energy and <vehicle fuel efficiency are where we should put our money. . . . < <. . .HCFS is an industrial product that was <perfected in the 1970s and introduced into the food system in the <early 1980s. Almost immediately, Americans started putting on weight, <with obesity doubling by 2000.
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