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Sent to a friendPresident Bush in love with Ethanol a mistake?
President Bush seems to be focussing mostly on ethanol produced in the US from converting switchgrass, corn and wood chips into ethanol.However, according to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), it would require almost a one-third of U.S. farmland, to power only 10% of America’s cars with homegrown ethanol. So it is impossible for ethanol to replaced oil as the major fuel for cars. Also ethanol production requires almost as much energy as it yields.
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- Ethanol is being pushed as the wonder fuel beacause big business is behind it. They care little if it can really meet the needs for our automobiles or help the envioroment.
They care about all the government handouts. grants and subsidies that are avilable fo ethanol production. The same people behind the oil are behind the ethanol, it is just a slight of hand, but the money ends up in the same place.
They also need a fuel that they can control the delivery of.
What would they do with all the gas stations and refineries if we all plugged our cars in at night and were recharged with household electricity or fuel by an onbourd hydrogrn generator that reuired nothing but purified tape water. - There are legitimate resons to question the ethics of reducing the world's food supply and the adverse environmental effects of producing substantially greater quantities of corn. Additionally, there are potentially grave consequences surrounding the production of GM corn.
- Bush is a sad excuse for a president.