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Kudzu ethanol...would you buy into it?

Asked by ccatron (2073points) June 11th, 2008

I know there have been discussions about ethanol on here before, I did use the search feature. Apparently, with Ethanol, your gas mileage goes down, and there’s not enough of it and it depletes the corn resources.

What if there was another way to make where we couldn’t run out of it? Ethanol can be made from other plants besides Soy beans and corn. Kudzu is a weed brought over by the Japanese which cannot be controlled. It grows 1 foot a day and as much as 60 feet per season and can be harvested twice a year. There are 7.2 millions acres of this stuff in the South according to an article i read this morning…

http://www.koaa.com/aaaaaa_down_to_earth/x471791254/Fuel-made-from-kudzu-plants

and here’s another one…

http://www.clevelandbanner.com/index.cfm?event=news.view&id=1D3C2DC1–19B9-E2E2–6780BC830230EB8E

My question is, if it were to bring the price down far enough, would you buy into it? Sure you might lose MPG, but if prices are right, it might be worth giving another thought. They plan to start production in 2009, so I guess we’ll soon find out if it is going to work. Corn and soy beans can go back to the grocery store and maybe other prices can start going down. The next step would be to find a way to convert our current vehicles to use ethanol without forcing people to buy new ones.

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