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The Big Three
The numbers behind ethanol, cellulosic ethanol, and biodiesel in the U.S. |
Maywa Montenegro |
04 Dec 2006 |
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| America devours oil like no other country in the world. Representing 5 percent of the global population, the country consumes fully a quarter of the world's oil. Every year, to move ourselves and our goods around, we burn 140 billion gallons of gasoline and 40 billion gallons of diesel -- enough to propel the average U.S. car around the world 1.6 billion times. But rising price ... |
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| Topics: ag policy, ag subsidies, agriculture, biofuels, cellulosic ethanol, energy, ethanol, politics (all these topics) |
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