[SEL] Corn-gas a BUST!

[Curt]

Because the corn farming lobby got to Congress before the sugar beets 
farmers did???
Curt

FRM8198 at aol.com wrote:
> Why is corn being used to produce ethanol in the USA?  Brazil  uses sugar 
> cane.  Sugar beets seem to be the ideal crop for this  process.  The only 
> disadvantage in using sugar beets is it will  depress the price of sugar and the 
> converting plant must be near the beet  fields.  Sugar beets must be processed 
> almost immediately after being  harvested to maintain a high sugar content.  
> Harvesting beets doesn't  require an expensive combine.  
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