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On Wed, 10 Jan 2018 15:22:56 -0500, JF Mezei
<jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> wrote:

>On 2018-01-09 09:34, Scott Dorsey wrote:
>
>> It takes a lot of land, but you can think of this as being an alternate 
>> solar power method.  The sun grows the plants, the plants make the fuel.
>
>One thing people forget: you can take waste oil from restaurants,
>process it and load it onto urban transit buses. (Montréal does that).

Speaking as someone who is born and raised in Montreal, I wouldn't
recommend that anyone copies _anything_ that the government here does.
Mass transit here is a complete mess.

>Basically, the oil used to fry your french fries could end up running a
>bus later on.
>
>So the amount of land used to grow stuff is not 100% dedicated to
>running vehicles as the vegetables have multiple uses.
>
>Ethanol is slightly different as corn production switches from food to
>fuel, and this would raise prices for corn as feed for cattle and feed
>for humans. But considering the overproduction of many commodities such
>as cotton which are highly subsidized, moving that land to corn
>production would indrease supply and reduce the need to subsidize cotton
>producers.

The problem with biofuel is actually something that impacts the
consumer the most. By converting fields to producing corn-based
ethanol rather than merely food, you're lowering the supply and
therefore raising the price of it for communities which depend on it
(and its low price) for sustenance. I'd say that it's the biggest
reason why so many politicians are unwilling to advocate for the use
of ethanol and piush companies into adapting their vehicles to using
it. The fact that pure ethanol is also incredibly damaging to motors
is also pretty damned discouraging. In small amounts, it cleans the
motor; in large amounts, it destroys it.