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Welcome to Stuff You Should Know from HowStuffWorks.com.

You're getting smarter.

Hello and welcome to The Podcast.

I'm Josh Clark.

I'm a staff writer here at HowStuffWorks.com.

And with me today is my trusty editor, Chris Palette.

Chris and I don't always see eye to eye on what should or shouldn't go into the article.

But I can tell you one that we both agree on and find fascinating.

It's an article that I wrote and he edited called Can We Fuel Cars With Grass?

So Chris, why don't you tell the folks about this article and what it says?

Well basically, switchgrass is one of the feedstocks for a biofuel.

And of course, that's something that pops up in the news all the time now is ethanol or

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