Jun 9, 2009

Corn Report

The Oregonian:
Last year, the U.S. produced more than 9 billion gallons of biofuels, almost all corn ethanol, using a quarter of the nation's corn crop. The fuel displaced enough petroleum gasoline to power 2.1 million cars. But it reduced greenhouse gas emissions from the U.S. transportation sector by less than 1 percent, the Congressional Budget Office estimates.
So if we converted every single kernel of corn on US soil into ethanol we wouldn't even get a 4% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions? Time to try something else.

1 Comments:

Blogger Unknown said...

No, no -a renewable fuel that reduces emissions is not the point. The point is to funnel billions of dollars to Cargill, Monsanto and other Big Agra campaign contributors. Next you'll be telling us the war in Afghanistan is about strategic objectives....

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