American made ethanol.
E85 ethanol fuel in my Flex Fuel Vehicle.
No soldiers died for my fuel
Today on Independence Day 7/04/09
Nor any other day of the year!
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The Ethanol Backlash
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While I'm as susceptible to Malthusian thoughts as the next paranoid guy, I find much of the anti-ethanol case to be unpersuasive. In each instance, the haters would have us look at ethanol, and the ill effects its greater use would assuredly produce, largely in isolation. Might the production of corn ethanol cause pollution? Of course. Is it worse than the sort of pollution created by other types of energy production—i.e., coal and oil? Probably not. Does greater use of corn for ethanol help spur price increases for food? Sure, but so do many other factors, like, say, the transformation of China from a subsistence farming economy into a more modern one. Is ethanol more inefficient, and hence more costly, than gasoline? Yes. But our heavy use of gasoline imposes all sorts of other costs—from pollution to the hundreds of billions of dollars we spend each year in Iraq. Factor those in, and ethanol no longer seems like such an economic loser. Finally, the long-term worries of the ethanol haters are in large measure based on the assumption that ethanol will continue to grow for many years at the same blistering pace it has recently. Such proclamations of boundless growth, which are a recurring feature of bubbles, frequently don't materialize as promised. Remember Dow 36,000?
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