Ethanol
Obama Reality Check - Ethanol Edition
How does rewarding big, subsidy-sucking agricultural corporations equal “change from the bottom up”?
December 18, 2008 | Read More
One More Reason Ethanol Is A Sham
Ethanol (even cellulosic or futuristic mushroom-based ethanol) cannot make diesel or jet fuel–and demand for those fuels is growing way faster than demand for regular old gasoline.
November 13, 2008 | Read More
Fungus Fuel - And Only $2.50 A Gallon?
Several companies are racing to find a “magic mushroom” that can turn garbage into gas.
November 7, 2008 | Read More
A Deserving Victim Of The Crash
An AP article out yesterday says that many ethanol plants, which have popped up like warts in the last few years, are being shuttered. Good riddance.
October 9, 2008 | Read More
A Truly Free Energy Market
In Brazil, they make fuel out of naturally occurring grasses and sugarcane instead of corn. It’s much cheaper and way more effective. Yet we’ve essentially blocked it from coming into the country by levying giant tariffs on it. Once again, we’re doing the bidding of a few small, powerful interests instead of acting for the greater good.
We need to end those tariffs on Brazil’s bio-fuel pronto and let as much Brazilian-made ethanol into the country as we can. Maybe then, our farmers will go back to growing corn for food instead of a wasteful, taxpayer subsidized fuel and our grocery…
August 27, 2008 | Read More
Reason #79: Ethanol, Another Phony Solution
Another stupid idea that politicians like to pitch is filling our tanks with corn ethanol. But again, it’s nothing but another boondoggle that lets politicians act like they’re doing something about our energy needs.
First of all, corn ethanol is horribly inefficient. Turning an ear of corn into fuel costs more than a dollar a gallon and it eats up almost as much fuel as it yields. What’s more, it corrodes pipelines, meaning every drop of it has to be hauled to the pump in tanker trucks. So we not only burn tons of energy just to make the stuff, we…
August 27, 2008 | Read More
Reason #36: Cornfed - Big Business’s ‘Socialist’ System
The former chairman of agriculture giant Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) once quipped that “the only place you see a free market is in the speeches of politicians … this is a socialist country.” We rarely get to hear our corporate or political leaders speak so candidly about the way our so-called capitalist system works these days.
Family farmers and small businesses in this country still have to play by the rules of the market. They try to make an honest profit on the crops they grow and the goods and services they sell. But for big business, the rules are different.…
August 26, 2008 | Read More
