| Jon's Green Soapbox...... |
[27 May 2005|01:40am] |
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If I have my facts straight, how can a fuel that uses more oil to make be good for us?????
Oh wait, it is the corn industry..........
EXPERTS REJECT BUSH RATIONALE FOR CORN-BASED ETHANOL
In a speech at a biodiesel refinery in Virginia last week,
President Bush touted the economic and environmental benefits of
corn-based ethanol. Scientific evidence, however, contradicts
the Administration's claims that increasing ethanol production
would reduce America's dependence on foreign oil in an
environmentally sound manner.
"The ethanol production process consumes more fossil fuel energy
than ethanol's actual calorific value," says University of
California civil and environmental engineering professor Tad
Patzek, who spent two years studying the environmental impacts
of ethanol.
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