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Enviro voices on ethanol energy balance and biofuel critic
The essay recalls a 1997 encounter with Elizabeth May and surveys energy inputs in ethanol production. David Pimentel, a Cornell ecologist, argues that producing ethanol uses more oil energy than it yields, with a ratio around 1.43 to 1.28 when by-products are included, and notes dry distillers grain as cattle feed.
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Brazil
Elizabeth May
Federal
Green Party
The
Sierra Club of Canada
Ms. May
David Pimentel
Cornell University
Faculty of Agriculture
White House
U.S. Department of Energy
Pimentel
Dry Distillers
Ken Sigurdson
Manitoba
National
Canada
Ottawa
Federal Treasury
Saskatoon Star Phoenix
Lloydminster
Saskatchewan