Re: Forget Corn ...................the new word is cellulose !

Reseachers indicate we are still some years away from making cellulose as efficiently extracted as corn. (Not all ethanol is created equal.) Certainly corn is not a long term solution. It would take something like the entire square footage of the top 8 corn growing states to replace all our gasoline consumption. And it takes something like 1 gal. of gas (fertilizer, herbicides, cultivation, transport. etc.) to produce 1 1/4 gal. of ethanol - and it's less efficient than gas! Kind of a wash, but good for corn farmers isn't it? Hopefully the ethanol plants will be able to convert to cellulose when the time is right. I read one plant is adjacent to an animal feed lot and uses the waste to power the plant!