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New York Times on alternative fuels

A story at nytimes.com describes the business of finding other things to burn besides petroleum-based stuff:

For years, scientists have known that the building blocks in plant matter

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Randy F Says:
November 9th, 2007 at 8:36 pm
I think the basic idea is that, as long as your biofuel comes from a sustainable plant crop, the carbon is being recycled from your tailpipe, into the atmosphere, back into the plant.

As opposed to petroleum, where the carbon went into a plant 65 million years ago and had been locked out of the cycle ever since.

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