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[Rawnoc]

Those are government subsidized. Lighting money on fire can be profitable if the government pays you to do that.

I don't consider something that has to be subsidized by the government to be economically viable in the real world.

crop-based biofuel investments

Ironically, the very same government giving the handouts, agrees -- from the US Department of Energy:



(and I realize this is just electricty -- you can dig further for ethanol -- it's not very hard to find how poorly the economics are without help)