Monday, October 25, 2010

Ethanol Added To Gas = MORE Greenhouse Gases Not Less

This link says it all for me: http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/250677/more-ethanol-means-dirtier-air-robert-bryce?page=2

More ethanol in auto fuel equals FOUR things:

  1. More engine repairs,
  2. Fuel costs more to produce,
  3. Cost of corn from which it comes increases and so does everything that's made from corn, and, worst of all,
  4. More polution, not less.

There were plenty of reputable people saying, before this nonsense began, that all those things would happen. They were labelled nut-cases and irresponsible. Sorry, but those four effects don't seem like a good deal to me. And now the federal government wants to increase the percentage of ethanol in gasoline from 10% to 15% ... which, DUH, makes all the above worse! Only a government bureaucracy (and, especially, a liberal one) could think that's a good thing. The corn/farm lobbies love it and so do many environmentalists although the latter number is shrinking for some reason. Could it be that that inconvenient thing called reality is beginning to take root in their thinking?

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