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Old 04-22-2011, 12:26 PM   #17
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Default Re: E-85 Not worth the effort!!

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Originally Posted by Wanger View Post
Farmers gotta make money, too. With the oil companies cleaning house like they do, do you blame them?

One of the "selling points" is that it purportedly reduces dependency on foreign oil, as it is produced domestically.

Unfortunately, it takes foreign oil to power the tractors and trucks to plant, harvest and then transport the corn to the processing plants. How much diesel gets burned for each gallon of ethanol that's produced?
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