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  What's Your Solution?

  You all are so quick to cast stones from your glass houses. You so hastily deride corn-based ethanol, the farmers who grow corn, the auto manufacturers who see promise in E-85, and the politicians who are attempting to do something about our impending energy crisis.

  So let's hear it...what's your solution? What's your answer? What are YOU doing to help address the problem? What other technology can you name that is making a difference TODAY in our liquid transportation fuel complex?

  ....That's what I thought. Is corn ethanol perfect? No. Is it helping reduce U.S. oil and gasoline consumption? Absolutely. Is it helping reduce GHG emissions? You bet. Is it keeping energy dollars local vs. sending them to the Persian Gulf? Yep.

  Do your homework. Even coal-fired ethanol plants are minor source emitters. And with amonia scrubbers and other technologies, emissions from some coal-fired plants are actually CLEANER than from natural gas fired plants (which are generally very clean).

  If you want to b!tch about emissions, look at the power plants and oil refineries. But, oh yeah, the computer you used to hack out your anti-ethanol diatribe probably derives its electricity from a coal-fired power plant.

  Pull your heads out, you ridiculous morons. Get a grip and apply your energies to an argument that actually needs arguing...On A new reliance on coal could sap green cred from the ethanol industry posted 3 years, 5 months ago 17 Responses