by INFORUM
Sugar beets could be next big biofuel
December 13, 2010 at 6:00 pm in INFORUM
A Fargo-based energy company is moving forward with plans for the nation’s first-ever beet ethanol plant the first step in an ambitious plan to turn one of the Red River Valley’s top crops into a biofuel mainstay.
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Oh great and the government will probably subsidize this so more farmland can be used for over rated ethanol fuel that burns out engines and makes you visit the pump much more often and as an added bonus food cost will probably go up. So we get it handed to us twice, once to subsidize this and again to pay higher prices at the grocery store. Just what we need!
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Um, I guess the price of pop and candy might go up, but really… who cares.
The real problem is beets, like corn, are incredibly fertilizer hungry, and they make fertilizer out of oil pumped from the ground. Just like corn ethanol, beet ethanol isn’t going to make one iota of a difference in our oil consumption, or our dependence upon foreign fuel.
On the other hand, I must say a lot of beets DO go to waste rotting because they don’t get used by spring time…. perhaps there is an upside to it.
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I wonder what is going to happen in the next few years when it comes to sugar production in this area. If Roundup-Ready beets are banned for food use, and if farmers get paid decent to haul to these ethanol plants, I would guess many farmers would be switching away from the non-gmo food grade beets to ethanol beets.
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I wouldn’t be betting on GMO’s not being approved for food use. They beacon to pesticide free foods, which is better for people than having pesticides on GMO free food.
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