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  Before reading this know that I am highly against the use of oil,

  Some of your "facts" are quite incorrect;

  5. The growing of plant material for alcohol would have no effect on the price of food.

  This is can not be true, just imagine if half the land in America was changed to crops grown for ethanol, the production of food would be halved, and when supply decreases and demand stays the same price increases.

  6. The growing of plants for fuel would more than neutralize the carbon created by burning alcohol for fuel.

  This "fact" is wrong on so many levels. First, all carbon taken in by a plant in the form of CO2 stays in the plant and when burned releases all that CO2 back again. At this level using an entire plant for heating fuel would keep the CO2 balance equal.

  Next one must add in the energy costs of transportation, tillage, planting, harvesting, fertilizers, pesticides, and the costs of building equipment, all these create CO2, and other environmentally damaging compounds, which will not be removed by the carbon neutral process of growing and burning a plant.

  8. Producing alcohol from plant material is energy efficient and has a positive energy return (You get more energy out of alcohol than it takes to make it).

  Another deceiving point, as of course it is positive, why would someone run a negative process to create energy, spending 2L of ethanol to create 1L of ethanol, just doesn't make sense.

  Also your point does let everyone know that even more energy(probably from burning coal or oil)to convert the crop into ethanol.

  Only problem now it, what can we use for energy? No coal, no oil, no ethanol. Thermal, hydro, wave and tidal anyone?

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