Gas is being made out of grasses now

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All very true, but also every time good agricultural land gets planted with a fuel crop because they bring higher returns means that someone goes hungry somewhere. Not an easy issue to solve, no simple answers.

Flamingo,im sorry but I just realised your not from this country and probably don't know our goverment pays farmers to not use 10s of millions of acres of prime farming land so food prices won't go way under price at sale but if we use that land to grow the wheat and other fuel producing grasses it will help the farmers that are barely hanging on. Im not trying to be a smart ass but you said there are no simple answers,I realise its a risk to try to make fuel out of plants but brazil has done it and doesn't import any fuel anymore so why can't we do it with throw away vegitation, take care Roboter
I believe your government also pays farmers to grow crops that aren't economical - protectionism. Is that correct?
Flamingo I really don't know or heard about protectionism but it sounds like something our stupid government would do and ill check up on that and get back to you. What I do know is the oil companies are afraid of this push for alternate fuels that will cut into there profits. With over 50 million dollars given to start that first plant to make fuel out of wheat and other non edible grasses,the oil companies better bring there price down or our great country will make plants that make cheap fuel like they were coming off an assembly line. Theres risk in almost anything we do as a nation but I don't see a better solution to our fuel crisis. I truely believe it will work and there are also many benefits like its not bad for the enviroment and it will create jobs for farmers that are sitting on there rumps waiting for there check not to plant there fields,now that strikes me as ripping off all americans that washington has created. Thanks for the feedback Roboter

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