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Dept. of Energy Rejects Corn Fuel Future

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the gas-on-the-cob dept.

eldavojohn writes "The United States' Department of Energy is stating that corn based fuel is not the future. From the article, "I'm not going to predict what the price of corn is going to do, but I will tell you the future of biofuels is not based on corn," U.S. Deputy Energy Secretary Clay Sell said in an interview. Output of U.S. ethanol, which is mostly made from corn, is expected to jump in 2007 from 5.6 billion gallons per year to 8 billion gpy, as nearly 80 bio-refineries sprout up. In related news, Fidel Castro is blasting the production of corn fuel as a blatant waste of food that would otherwise feed 3 billion people who will die of hunger."

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  1. I'm more amazed by gerf · · Score: 4, Funny

    That three billion people die a year from hunger. HOLY CRAP!

  2. Re:zombie castro said what? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Refugees?

  3. A Modest Proposal... by Kadin2048 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Obviously, we just need some way of bypassing the middle man in all this, and converting poor people directly into fuel!

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