"That was the straw that broke the camel's back," says David Pimentel, also an entomologist at Cornell.

“这是压垮骆驼的那根稻草。”康乃尔另一位昆虫学者皮门特尔说。

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Congressmen love ethanol subsidies, notwithstanding that growing corn and distilling it into ethanol uses 29%more energy than it produces, according to Cornell University's David Pimentel.

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Our Advisory Board consists of Jonathan Cole (Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies), Karin Limburg (SUNY-Syracuse), David Pimentel (Cornell University), W. Kenneth Smail (Kenyon College) and Madeline Weld (Population Institute Canada).

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Two well-known cynics, David Pimentel of Cornell and Tad Patzek of UC, Berkeley, calculate that producing a gallon of corn ethanol consumes 29% more fossil fuel energy than the ethanol displaces.

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