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It'd be much more practical if they could make ethanol from cellulose, rather than requiring corn that would be better off used as food.
Unfortunately, now that ethanol has become a form of fuel for automobiles, the small percentage of the world's population which owns cars is going to be competing for corn against the far larger and much poorer people that do not. And if oil prices stay high, it will drive more and more of the corn production into ethanol, and away from food use, causing the price of alternatives to corn, like wheat, rice, soybeans, etc to go up in price due to the increased demand by the fuel industry for corn.
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New England
You know what the first rule of sailing is? ...Love. You can learn all the math in the 'verse, but you take
a boat to the sea you don't love, she'll shake you off just as sure as the turning of the worlds. Love keeps
her going when she oughta fall down, tells you she's hurting 'fore she keens. Makes her a home.
—Cpt. Mal Reynolds, Serenity (edited)
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