Ethanol Scam: Ethanol Hurts the Environment And Is One of America’s Biggest Political Boondoggles
By JEFF GOODELL (Posted Jul 24, 2007)
The great danger of confronting peak oil and global warming isn’t that we will sit on our collective asses and do nothing while civilization collapses, but that we will plunge after “solutions” that will make our problems even worse. Like believing we can replace gasoline with ethanol, the much-hyped biofuel that we make from corn…
…Midwest farmers will get rich, the air will be cleaner, the planet will be cooler, and, best of all, we can tell those greedy sheiks to fuck off. As the king of ethanol hype, Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa, put it recently, “Everything about ethanol is good, good, good.” This is not just hype—it’s dangerous, delusional bullshit…Mehr