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Corn ethanol myopia
We need to rethink all food based biofuels |
biodiversivist |
29 Mar 2007 |
Gristmill |
| The lion's share of biofuel bashing on Grist deals with corn ethanol, because we Americans primarily use gasoline for our cars and ethanol runs fine in them, with few modifications. However, our pals in Europe drive a lot of diesel cars and the biofuel crisis over there revolves primarily around biodiesel. I think it is time we recognize that their problem is also our problem. A comment from Pcarbo alerted me to Monbiot's latest take on biofuels. He has now gone so fa ... |
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| Topics: agriculture, Big Ag, biofuels, energy, ethanol (all these topics) |
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