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Old 04-04-2014, 08:24 PM   #29
mechanic
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Default Re: QLD To Consider Mandating Ethanol in all Petrol Bowsers

" if you use sugar cane, it produces the most ethanol per acre, more farmers, mroe country jobs, Brazil been doing it for years for reasons. "

A lot of cane growers have gone into cattle and other crops but given the right incentive this could restart some mills and kick some life back into places like Babinda that lost it's mill in Yasi.
Also the Ord river has been talking about doing stage 3, they have a mill up there as well.
I have absolutely no idea though of what infrastructure you need to produce E.
Our mill has gone from Cairns, so now there's Mossman, Gordonvale, Tablelands and South Johnstone. They used to provide quite a lot of jobs in the crushing season. Be good to see them operating at capacity.
Off topic:- Should be starting to process our own cattle instead of exporting live, Cairns meatworks and sugar mill are long gone and now we have record unemployment according to yesterdays paper.
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