"There's enough alcohol in one year's yield of an acre of potatoes to drive the machinery necessary to cultivate the fields for one hundred years."
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Henry Ford, as quoted in Stephen R. Fahnestock; Alexander SteinbĂĽchel, Biopolymers, Polyamides and Complex Proteinaceous Materials, Vol. 1 (2003), p. 395
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