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As much as I like to disagree with more ethanol...
Pimental is wrong in his analysis because he does not apply it equally when he evaluates the petroleum industry. The energy to make tankers, pipelines, drilling rigs, trucks to explore new regions for oil, clean up costs, etc. etc. The reason you leave out the energy to make the combines, vehicles and other equipement in ethanol production because they are preexisting structures that would be utilized to produce other crops and are not single use items. For example if a corn/bean farmer were not producing corn for ethanol he would still own all the same equipment so that he would produce soybeans and another crop such as wheat for food/feed consumption. The energy would be used whether corn was produced or not. I doubt the petroleum industry would stand up to the same magnifying glass of energy usage that pimental applies to the ethanol industry if the energy were tallied up to get a gallon of gas to the pumps. On Three perspectives on the biofuels debate posted 2 years, 11 months ago 18 Responses
As much as I like to disagree with more ethanol...
Pimental is wrong in his analysis because he does not apply it equally when he evaluates the petroleum industry. The energy to make tankers, pipelines, drilling rigs, trucks to explore new regions for oil, clean up costs, etc. etc. The reason you leave out the energy to make the combines, vehicles and other equipement in ethanol production because they are preexisting structures that would be utilized to produce other crops and are not single use items. For example if a corn/bean farmer were not producing corn for ethanol he would still own all the same equipment so that he would produce soybeans and another crop such as wheat for food/feed consumption. The energy would be used whether corn was produced or not. I doubt the petroleum industry would stand up to the same magnifying glass of energy usage that pimental applies to the ethanol industry if the energy were tallied up to get a gallon of gas to the pumps. On Toward a community-owned, decentralized biofuel future posted 2 years, 11 months ago 18 Responses
As much as I like to disagree with more ethanol...
Pimental is wrong in his analysis because he does not apply it equally when he evaluates the petroleum industry. The energy to make tankers, pipelines, drilling rigs, trucks to explore new regions for oil, clean up costs, etc. etc. The reason you leave out the energy to make the combines, vehicles and other equipement in ethanol production because they are preexisting structures that would be utilized to produce other crops and are not single use items. For example if a corn/bean farmer were not producing corn for ethanol he would still own all the same equipment so that he would produce soybeans and another crop such as wheat for food/feed consumption. The energy would be used whether corn was produced or not. I doubt the petroleum industry would stand up to the same magnifying glass of energy usage that pimental applies to the ethanol industry if the energy were tallied up to get a gallon of gas to the pumps. On An interview with David Pimentel posted 2 years, 11 months ago 18 Responses
As much as I like to disagree with more ethanol...
Pimental is wrong in his analysis because he does not apply it equally when he evaluates the petroleum industry. The energy to make tankers, pipelines, drilling rigs, trucks to explore new regions for oil, clean up costs, etc. etc. The reason you leave out the energy to make the combines, vehicles and other equipement in ethanol production because they are preexisting structures that would be utilized to produce other crops and are not single use items. For example if a corn/bean farmer were not producing corn for ethanol he would still own all the same equipment so that he would produce soybeans and another crop such as wheat for food/feed consumption. The energy would be used whether corn was produced or not. I doubt the petroleum industry would stand up to the same magnifying glass of energy usage that pimental applies to the ethanol industry if the energy were tallied up to get a gallon of gas to the pumps. On To fulfill its environmental promises, biofuel policy needs a kick in the pants posted 2 years, 11 months ago 18 Responses
The educated detractors are rare.
The Nebraska Journal Star had a nice article last week from a guy in the know on how we are going to end up burning our food up to make a minute amount of fuel. You will be driving to McDs on 2.00 gas but you hamburger will cost 15 dollars... Grain ethanol and bean oil based diesel subsidies and programs are out of control. Take it from an industry insider. We will starve the bottom 15 to 20% of the world's poor to feed our vehicles if this continues.On Get ready for a special series posted 2 years, 12 months ago 3 Responses