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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
