Re: news of the day

Interesting. Comparatively, how much corn - fresh, new, sustainable -
does it take to make a gallon of ethanol? And what about the guy that
has developed a way to make petroleum from any and all carbon-based
material, like old computer parts? We need people in office who care at
least a little bit about what we're doing.


Kitty
> This came thru my news today... thought you might want to read it. The
> again, you probably all know this already....
> 
> Donna
> 
> 
> Good Mileage 98 Tons of Plants Per Gallon
> 
> SALT LAKE CITY (UPI) -- A New University of Utah study shows 98 tons of
> prehistoric, buried plant material is needed to produce just one gallon
> of gasoline to power our vehicles. Researcher Jeff Dukes asked, "Can you
> imagine loading 40 acres worth of wheat -- stalks, roots and all -- into
> the tank of your car or SUV every 20 miles?" But he says that's how much
> ancient plant matter had to be buried millions of years ago and
> converted by pressure, heat and time into oil to produce one gallon of
> gasoline today.
> 
> He also calculated the amount of fossil fuel burned during just 1997
> totaled 97 million billion pounds of carbon -- the equivalent of more
> than 400 times all the plant matter that grows in the world during just
> one year. Asked why he conducted the study, Dukes said "Fossil fuel
> consumption is widely recognized as unsustainable. However, there has
> been no attempt to calculate the amount of energy that was required to
> generate fossil fuels." The study is to be published in the November
> issue of the journal Climatic Change.
> 
> Copyright 2003 by United Press International. All rights reserved
> 
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