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摘要

A s the weight of the struggling economy set-tles on President Obama's shoulders, he promises that new energy solutions will be part of the cure. But green is longer-term and has its limits. How many jobs does it take to build wind turbines or retrofit a building, as opposed to staffing 4,000 U.S. independents and keeping 1,500 drilling rigs turning to the right? Green is good, but it is not a panacea, nor even economic, yet. Consider the nation's second-largest ethanol producer, VeraSun, which is struggling. In March it will auction off seven ethanol plants it acquired in a 2008 merger.