Researchers evaluate ethanol as energy option

Researchers evaluate ethanol as energy option - Ohio Farm Bureau Federation:
Aug 23, 2005

According to Dale and Sheehan, Pimentel and Patzek routinely inflate the energy inputs of both farming and fuel production. Their estimates of fossil inputs for farm production are twice as high as those estimated by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and their grain processing input estimate is 40 percent higher, Sheehan said.
'Their analyses are simply wrong in many important details,' said Dale. 'They really need to update their information.'
'Pimentel and Patzek ignore the huge benefits of petroleum savings for all biofuels,' Sheehan said. 'For every unit of petroleum energy consumed in corn ethanol production, more than six units of fuel energy are produced.'