Biofuels Hit the Fan

From a recent news article in the Hawaii Reporter:

"Time Magazine has a cover story called “The Clean Energy Scam” (http://tinyurl.com/2w84uj). Author Michael Grunwald illuminates a number of well-known problems connected to ethanol, as well as discussing some of the newer ones. He points out that ethanol production increases global warming, destroys forests, and inflates food prices. And as stated above, ethanol contains 33% less energy, gallon for gallon, than gasoline. In other words, your car’s mileage will decrease."


"People often talk about “unintended consequences”, but with a worrying level of declining science literacy among the public and their elected officials, “unintended consequences” looks more like government sponsored willful negligence. As P.J. O’Rourke said “Some people will do anything to save the planet except take a science course”."


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