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5. Did you miss the fact that the conversion process is coal fired?

Tue Mar 26, 2013, 08:38 PM

Mar 2013

They'd be much better off using the natural gas in their electrical plants and making ethanol from sorghum straw.

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Celanese to make ethanol from Natural Gas [View all] Bill USA Mar 2013 OP

They're using two fossil fuels to generate a non fossil fuel! Warpy Mar 2013 #2

Did you miss the fact that the conversion process is coal fired? Warpy Mar 2013 #5

Typical fossil industry Ponzi scheme kristopher Mar 2013 #7

+1 Nihil Mar 2013 #8