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Archive Home > 2008 > July > 20 > To save corn, why not use wood-based renewable fuel sources?

To save corn, why not use wood-based renewable fuel sources?

By Mike Allen / The Bulletin
July 20, 2008

Dear Mike: It is good that we can blend renewable fuel, such as ethanol, with nonrenewable, petroleum-based fuel. But a big problem with ethanol as fuel is that it is made of corn. The food-or-fuel trade-off has caused food prices to rise in parts of the world that can ill afford the....

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