Comments by CO2
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Posted on April 5 at 4:17 p.m.
Even though the majority of US corn is not irrigated, this does not take into account water required to distill ethanol:
Granite Falls Energy (MN) has drained its aquifer by nearly half in less than a year. It takes 4 gallons of water to produce a gallon of ethanol.
If ethanol is a net energy winner, why do we have to subsidize it $.50/gal. How is that putting money in my pocket?
Ethanol is a auto-agribusiness (GM/Ford/ADM/Cargill) sideshow which allows gas guzzler car cos. to avoid paying CAFE penalties and continue to make Chevy Suburbans and Ford Expeditions for brain dead soccer moms & dads.
"Technology will solve the mileage deficit"
And won't it will probably come in a convenient colorful wrapped package like an IPOD?
Who needs topsoil and clean aquifers-
American Idol 2010 can probably fix that, too.
The reality is there is probably no good substitute for cheap oil, and there are too many people for this planet to sustain, and too many of them are greedy and lazy people (predominantly in the US) aspiring to live in a bigger McMansion with big SUVs, with no sense of conservation or efficiencies- the next dinosaurs!
Father of 2,
Chicago, IL
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Posted on April 5 at 4:23 p.m.
And how is paying higher prices for groceries because of the doubling cost of corn feed "putting money in my pocket"?
On The problem with ethanol