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Posted by brendan_of_bonsai 4b AK (My Page) on Thu, Jun 12, 08 at 17:04
| Stop using corn ethanol, or at least use the least amount possible. If you drove your car using the natural gas and gasoline used to make enough ethanol to go 20 miles you could drive 25-40 miles. If the US put all of its farm land into growing one big corn field, and invaded Mexico and took 35 million acres of their farm land and we put it all towards corn ethanol and didn't expand our driving fuel needs our gas consumption would rise about 25% and the price of fuel would go through the roof (think 12 dollars a gallon with out govt aid) and our natural gas prices would rise, and we would have nothing to eat. Its a really bad idea, no one did the accounting initially, it will never help us reduce dependence on foreign oil or increase national security or reduce green house gases, or restore damaged land, or stop erosion, all it does is keep farmers employed, which is nice, but cant we pay them do do something else like restore and maintain native prairie or something? |
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RE: fastest way to reduce net green house gases from driving
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| A recent study in England showed biofuel from corn produced more pollution than oil based fuel. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article2507851.ece Also see: http://blogs.iht.com/tribtalk/business/green/?p=132 which cites a study by the Smithsonian. Like Kermit the Frog says, it ain't easy being green. |
RE: fastest way to reduce net green house gases from driving
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- Posted by shebear z8 NCentralTex (My Page) on
Sun, Jun 22, 08 at 18:04
| I've known this for three years......and the pollution is worse in hot areas. But those absentee landowners that make up our agriculture are making big bucks. |
RE: fastest way to reduce net green house gases from driving
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| Notice how no one from Iowa ever comments on this sort of thing? |
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