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Is the end nigh? NYT goes after ethanol
2023-06-07
[HOT Air] The Climate Solution That’s Horrible for the Climate

Do tell!

...It’s fairly well-known that farm-grown fuels like corn ethanol and soy biodiesel accelerate food inflation and global hunger, but they’re also a disaster for the climate and the environment. And that’s mainly because they’re inefficient land hogs. It takes about 100 acres worth of biofuels to generate as much energy as a single acre of solar panels; worldwide, a land mass larger than California was used to grow under 4 percent of transportation fuel in 2020.

Actually, in the Green world, it’s not "fairly well known," as climate advocates have done everything they can to pummel the fossil fuel industry and bury any whiff of hypocrisy, environmental harms, deleterious effects on society, or misstatement of efficacy as far their biodiesel and alternate fuels claims go.
Posted by:Besoeker

#9  RE#4
Yup it's a bad one.
You'll feel it soon enough.
Posted by: Cleared Cookies Lost Nic   2023-06-07 10:43  

#8  
Posted by: M. Murcek   2023-06-07 09:41  

#7  Imagine how much likker all that corn could make!
Posted by: Glenmore    2023-06-07 09:40  

#6  Maybe the land could be planted in wheat, to replace Ukrainian wheat.
Posted by: Bobby   2023-06-07 09:34  

#5  As an elderly Navajo gentleman told his customer at an Arizona gas station when questioned as to why no ethanol gas was available there, "Why would we put food in our cars?"
Posted by: Mullah Richard   2023-06-07 07:53  

#4  Then again, there's this:

US Corn Crop Deteriorates After Midwest Hit By Worst Drought In Decades
Posted by: DooDahMan   2023-06-07 07:42  

#3  Cheap tacos and tortillas...can't wait!
Posted by: DooDahMan   2023-06-07 07:39  

#2  Where will all the ethanol go once the green politicians are done banning all ICE cars?
Posted by: M. Murcek   2023-06-07 06:55  

#1  It will cost a bit more to remove the Ethanol, but your car will run better and it will help clean the planet.

Oh WAIT !
Posted by: Besoeker   2023-06-07 02:10  

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