Ethanol causing other problems- What about the rabbits?, page 1
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Topic started on 27-1-2008 @ 09:49 AM by spyder207

Ethanol causing other problems- What about the rabbits?


www.nwanews.com
ROGERS — The corn-hungry ethanol industry has caused plenty of financial pain for U. S. beef, chicken and pork processors, but there’s a furrier casualty in this battle between food and fuel.

Rabbits are becoming a scarce commodity as alfalfa and soybeans — the main ingredients in their feed — lose acreage to highpriced corn across the nation. This nationwide shift toward growing corn has tightened supplies of other commodities, which tends to drive their prices up, as well.
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reply posted on 27-1-2008 @ 12:32 PM by Keyhole
They need to change what they are making Ethanol from, I'm sure this will happen.

They need to change the system in place now to make the Ethanol from grass, switchgrass is what I've heard of the most.

Switchgrass Yields Five Times More Energy Than is Used to Grow it


A new study by the University of Nebraska's Kenneth Vogel has shown that switchgrass, a prairie grass found alongside the borders of many fields, yields 540% more energy than is used to grow it.

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That impressive 540% figure compares quite favorably to the 93% return on soybean biodiesel and (measly) 25% return on corn ethanol. Emissions produced from using switchgrass bioethanol would be roughly 94% lower than those from gasoline - making it almost carbon neutral.



It's more energy efficient and requires almost no fertilizer to grow.

Here's a thread on ATS about it.
ATS - Switchgrass Yields Five Times More Energy Than is Used to Grow it

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