Arthur Berman: "Peak Oil - The Hedonic Adjustment"
The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens
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Is Corn Ethane Net Energy Positive?
Ethanol also has a lower heat content per gallon, correct? Well, it does. And so you need, yeah, you basically, you don't get the same range. You fill up your tank with 15% ethanol and your car doesn't go as far as if you've filled it up with 100%. Or the flex fuel vehicles that have up to 70% or whatever it is, they even have a lesser range. Yeah. The course is that you're competing, you're using food for fuel. And so that has the effect of you use less of what you grow to feed people. It also increases the cost of agricultural land,. I mean, we get into this whole
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