Dept. of Energy Rejects Corn Fuel Future

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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Re:No, they really don't. It's kind of sad.

[aztracker1]

Well, my son just informed me the other day about the U.S. Civil War being all about slavery... funny, I thought that four states separated from the union before Lincoln was even elected, and that many northern new england states had threatened to do the same before the first southern states did, and that it was pretty much agreed upon that those states had the right to do so... Until one of them attempted to clear out a foreign military base... But hey, that's just me.

Re:Networked Effect

[indifferent children]

Typical cowardly dago's.

Dago's? I thought 'dago' was ignorant-shithead slang for Italians, not ignorant-shithead slang for Spaniards. Maybe I need to brush up on the finer point of shitheadery; do you give private lessons?

Re:No, they really don't. It's kind of sad.

[indifferent children]

But that was nothing compared to the lynching of blacks in the south

Sorry, I was only thinking about international affairs. Internally, our track record isn't as good, for people (not just identifiable minorities, but all non-wealthy) or for the environment.