Been thinking more about why govts would be so much in favour of grain based ethanol, when there's scarcely a positive energy balance.
Maybe it's economic "busy work"...you know that stuff that Primary School teachers use in the week before Christmas...traces this, cut that out, paste it, and let me get on with end of year paper work.
Rather than drilling, refining, and selling, which employs only (say) 4 people, maybe they want all of the extra hands that ethanol puts into the loop to bolster the money go round.
Beats paying people to dig holes and fill them in to stimulate the money go round.
Maybe it's economic "busy work"...you know that stuff that Primary School teachers use in the week before Christmas...traces this, cut that out, paste it, and let me get on with end of year paper work.
Rather than drilling, refining, and selling, which employs only (say) 4 people, maybe they want all of the extra hands that ethanol puts into the loop to bolster the money go round.
Beats paying people to dig holes and fill them in to stimulate the money go round.