Ethanol can best be made by weeds like switch grass. Corn ethanol is too expensive, and would drive up the cost of food, etc. People who support renewable energy like Solar PV, Concentrated Solar Power, Wind, Hydro, Tidal do not generally support corn ethanol. Corn ethanol is a hoax that is really just a way to make renewable energy seem like a losing proposition. Swicthgrass, a weeks would be a better option, there is a lot of research with algae, the coln ethanol is a scam as is clean coal. These are ways politicians act they they support renewable energy but are in fact tanking the best options to protect the petroleum industry and keep viable renewable energy options from taking hold.
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I think so
nice rant.
any facts and a question ?
Are you kidding? You do know that corn isnt used to make ethanol….the husks, stalks and leaves are. Ethanol is less efficient than petroleum. You need more ethanol to go the same distance as you would on petroleum
Growing ethanol producing plants is bad because people cut down trees to make farms. The rainforests are being cut to grow sugarcane for ethanol.
What do you mean, corn Would drive up the price of food. It already has. The problem is, switchgrass grows great in South America but the climate of the US is too cold to grow it. Growing corn to be used as fuel is strictly a political albatross which can not be stopped now.
i have no idea about the people who support renewable energy [which is itself a hoax, imho], but corn ethanol is a payoff to Iowa and other farm states.
that land, water, time, and energy could be used to go food for either human or animal consumption. instead, we’re wasting it in automobile gas tanks.
world food prices are at their highest levels in decades, perhaps since 1917. and part of that is because America burns corn in automobile gas tanks.
Every form of alternative energy has one aspect that makes it completely untenable. For example, if we cut our energy consumption in half we would still to to cover the entire state of Montana in wind turbines to meet our energy needs.
You really are presenting a statement rather then asking a question. More to the point is that most conversions of corn to alcohol are net energy negatives and also contribute to CO2 emissions.
In addition, does it really make sense to utilize so much of the food crop to make something that you burn in your car. However, support of Farm State Senators and Congressman, and effective lobbying gives the result you currently see.
In the Adam Smith economics, it states that government should neither favor nor hinder any one group, but with massive tax subsidies, that approach goes out the window.
If it were really the free market, the best approach would win. But it is hard to compete with tax subsidies and high paid lobbyists.