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| The musings of a conservatarian frustrated writer. ... |
Friday, May 09, 2008 --- 57 days ago http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/RadioactiveCommunistZombies/~3/286509234/the-end-
| On October 10, 2006, I wrote my first anti-ethanol post for this blog. Since then I've written many more ( Technorati lists 20 since October 2007 alone).
Seems like maybe the world is finally starting to agree with me. In an unsigned editorial in yesterday's Wall Street Journal, says there is now a "backlash" against ethanol: Last week chief economist Joseph Glauber of the USDA, which has been among Big Ethanol's best friends in Washington, blamed biofuels for increasing prices on corn and soybeans. Mr. Glauber also predicted that corn prices will continue their historic rise because of demand from "expanding use for ethanol."
Even the environmental left, which pushed ethanol for decades as an alternative to gasoline, is coming clean. Lester Brown, one of the original eco-Apostles, wrote in the Washington Post that "it is impossible to avoid the conclusion that food-to-fuel mandates have failed." We knew for sure the tide had turned when Time magazine's recent cover story, "The Clean Energy Myth," described how turning crops into fuel increases both food prices and atmospheric CO2 [sic] And it gets worse: February report in the journal Science found that "corn-based ethanol, instead of producing a 20% savings, nearly doubles greenhouse emissions over 30 years . . . Biofuels from switchgrass, if grown on U.S. corn lands, increase emissions by 50%." Princeton's Timothy Searchinger and colleagues at Iowa State, of al ... |
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