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Subject: Ethanol Not Green or Clean, Sierra Club says so.


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Larry
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Date Posted: 15:22:17 01/31/08 Thu

you need to read he hole thing. and remember the plants also use a ton of natural gas to heat the Bacteria.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/fn/5497484.html

All sides agree that it takes lots of electricity to produce ethanol. Utilities note a typical plant eats up as much energy as 1,600 farms.

The divide comes over where that electricity should come from. Environmental activists believe greener means, such as natural gas, should be used. Power companies argue that coal is the only cost-efficient solution

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