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Originally Posted by Kojak
I don't think farmers in the south west would agree with that, they are just beginning to conserve and manage water. It takes far less water to make a gallon of ethanol from switch grass than form corn. We have no use for it otherwise so it wouldn't impact many other markets like what corn did.
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I wasn't talking about water conservation in that sense,but I see your point. I meant in our day to day lives. In Australia the toilets have 2 buttons, 1 using more water than the other. I'll let you figure out why. They collect rain water in containers holding thousands of gallons (liters actually) and use that for drinking water, etc.
There's also "E10" at the pumps down there and while it's like 6c cheaper/L (~23c/gal) there are stories on the news where while you're paying less you're getting less out of it (pronounced inefficient.)