VituVingiSana wrote:@mukiha -
http://auto.howstuffwork...e-fuels/question707.htm
Through research performed at Cornell University, we know that 1 acre of land can yield about 7,110 pounds (3,225 kg) of corn, which can be processed into 328 gallons (1240.61 liters) of ethanol. That is about 26.1 pounds (11.84 kg) of corn per gallon. What more do you want me to say?
@VVS you miss beach for the sand...
Point is... THE AMERICAN GOVERNMENT IS SUBSIDIZING FARMERS TO GROW FUEL CROPS, INCLUDING MAIZE/CORN. THE AMOUNT OF MAIZE REQUIRED TO FILL A 50 LITRE TANK IS ENOUGH TO FEED ONE PERSON FOR AN YEAR.
As more farmers take to farming for bio-fuel, less farmland is put under food crops.There will be a shortage of maize for human consumption, since as it is, what a car can consume in a day, a human would consume in a year.
Hence the price of grains in general and maize in particular will continue to rise!
Now you may be a genius or a genius+, for the sake of God you may be knowing which cow farted the loudest in Luhyialand in the year 1990, since you have all the facts!
That said, my patience with you is running out, good as you are in stock analysis and respected you are as a wazua elder...
I restrain myself for now...
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