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Re: OT: a dumb query? pls humor me



Roberto C. Sanchez wrote in Article
<[🔎] 20070314124005.GD7612@miami.connexer.com> posted to
gmane.linux.debian.user:

> On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 08:52:36PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote:
>> Paul Johnson wrote:
>> > Why not just go bioethanol in a larger percentage year round?  Portland
>> > is,
>> > and it might go statewide by the end of the session.  Gasoline sales
>> > are banned here for the better.
>> 
>>     Probably because to produce 1 gallon of bio you need to use 1 gallon
>>     of
>> gasoline.  It's completely 0-sum right now.
>> 
> Of course, there is also the fact that the increase in demand for corn
> is pushing the price up and causing riots in Mexico.

Perhaps they should farm their own land instead of ours?  :oP




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