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Ethanol Fuel from Corn Faulted as ‘Unsustainable Subsidized Food Burning’

Posted by devildog6771 on April 20, 2011


Ethanol fuel plant in West Burlington, Iowa.

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For several days many news reports talked about the increasing cost of gas and the effect on the American consumer and our economy. As a result of this continuous increase in gas prices, the government and many people in America are wondering if we need to start relying on ethanol-gas or just ethanol as an alternative fuel source to power our vehicles in America.

President Obama wants laws created to force the auto industry to make more or all ethanol-gas or ethanol powered vehicles. Meanwhile the public and many lawmakers don’t believe the government has any business enacting such laws.

What none of those for or against the ethanol-gas or all ethanol alternative fuel source have discussed is the feasibility of such a conversion. Here is a copy of a report published by David Pimental, a leading Cornell University agricultural expert, which discusses the ramifications of using ethanol as an alternative fuel source. Read the rest of this entry »

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