Can Plant Oils Replace Petroleum?(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)

Publication: USA Today (Magazine)

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When Bernie Tao, professor of agricultural and biological engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Ind., talks to farmers, he tells them that, although they may not realize it, they are oil barons. The oil they control isn't below the ground, however. It's growing on top, contained in the corn and soybean plants in their fields. He predicts that, over the next several decades, plant oil will become just as essenrial to everyday life as fossil fuels are today.

"In the 1970s, we...

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