Bad for consumers, the environment, and the poor. Last November, when the Environment Protection Agency (EPA) proposed moderating years of escalating mandates by reducing the amount of ethanol that must be mixed into gasoline, a top ethanol lobbyist seemed perplexed. "We're all just sort of scratching our heads here ... MORE
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Peter Suderman: The Ethanol Disaster
Bad for consumers, the environment, and the poor. Last November, when the Environment Protection Agency (EPA) proposed moderating years of escalating mandates by reducing the amount of ethanol that must be mixed into gasoline, a top ethanol lobbyist seemed perplexed. "We're all just sort of scratching our heads here ... MOREJames Conca: It's Final -- Corn Ethanol Is Of No Use
It's always been about subsidies, not the environment. OK, can we please stop pretending biofuel made from corn is helping
the planet and the environment? The United Nations Intergovernmental
Panel on Climate Change released two of its Working Group reports at the
end of last month (WGI and WGIII), and their short discussion of ... MOREGreen Ethanol And The Damage It Leaves Behind
Govt mandate does more than drive up corn prices. The hills of southern Iowa bear the scars of America's push for green energy: The brown gashes where rain has washed away the soil. The polluted streams that dump fertilizer into the water supply. Even the cemetery that disappeared like an apparition into a cornfield. It wasn't ... MORE
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