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Originally Posted by Lanny_MacDonald
This mindset is what makes me shake my head. You can do both from one single crop. You can grow food AND produce fuel. The food stuffs come from the fruit of the plant, and the fuel comes from the stalks and waste portion of the plant. The vast majority of the energy of a plant is in those stalks, but it is easier to get at the fuel through the fruit.
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If only it were that simple, the quality of plant required to produce fuel is much lower than one in which can be used for human consumption. If fuel prices are really high than farmers are more likely willing to forsake quality for yield and the food part gets wasted anyway and as this happens then there's less food on the market and then those prices go higher until we reach an equalibrium world where both fuel and food prices are higher than the baseline. Both vital components of our existance. Therefore maybe it's the wrong tree to bark up when looking for an alternative to gasoline from petroleum.