Corn Ethanol: Biofuel or Biofraud?

Seems it would be better fed to cattle to produce prime beef.


Corn Ethanol: Biofuel or Biofraud?


Here’s an interesting bit of scientific research, courtesy of a recent report from the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, a Paris-based global economic think tank, on the difference in greenhouse gas emissions from cars burning gasoline-only fuel and fuels made from various forms of ethanol:

Corn ethanol: 0-3 percent greenhouse gas emission reduction.

Sugar cane ethanol: 50-70 percent reduction.

Cellulosic ethanol: 90-plus percent.

But wait, there’s more:

Which form of ethanol production is the United States government (and its taxpayers) subsidizing? Corn, of course.

Which form of ethanol production does the United States government levy a 53-cents-a-gallon import tariff on? Sugar cane, naturally.

And which form of ethanol production is under-funded, under-researched, and furthest from commercial production? The cleanest choice, obviously.

Do you see a pattern here?

http://wheels.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/09/24/corn-ethanol-biofuel-or-biofraud/?hp

One must be blind not to see something is amiss.

The article goes on and only makes me wonder about how easy it is to stampede citizens for what maybe a most foolish course of action.