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Subject: [OM] Re: OT - energy efficient cars
From: Chris Barker <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 14 May 2006 06:54:53 +0100
And it would be priced properly only if the farmers had to use the  
fuel for the machinery to prepare the soil, sow the crop and harvest  
it.  A subsidy would (again) distort the market and perpetuate the  
waste of energy.

Chris
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C M I Barker
Cambridgeshire, Great Britain.
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On 14 May 2006, at 06:20, Andrew Fildes wrote:

> Made from food?! What's wrong with waste? As I remember, US
> agriculture is extraordinarily greedy of conventional forms of
> energy. It already consumes more fuel energy than the food energy
> produced, a negative investment, so making it from a crop would be
> socially and environmentally disastrous - only govt. subsidy would
> make it profitable.


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