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Originally Posted by freeztar
Good for them!
Corn ethanol subsidies in America are a joke imho.
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Yes agreed and I wonder how much money goes to the Corporate Farm rather than the Family Farm?
Because of the USA corn subsides and the Indonesian destruction of its environment for palm oil; biofuels have a bad name, which is a pity.
Indonesia will destroy anything where there is a buck to be made, as in their rape of forests, and genocide of the people, in Papua.
In Australia though, we can easily produce a lot more sugar cane without clearing forests. At the moment most goes for sugar or rum. Ethanol 10% mixes are available but the price break is just not there; even though the ethanol is not double taxed at petrol is.
Australians don't have to make a choice between food Vs alcohol. (
Um you know what I mean!)
We have not yet begun to research the possibilities of crops for dry desert areas or salt damaged or marginal land.
