NYT Editorial - Rethinking Ethanol

NYT ^ | May 11th, 2008 | Editorial

[NoLibZone]

No mention from a single Socialist of the FDR “No Till” Set asides) policies.

Polices enacted to keep prices high.

[Perchant]

Unlike corn ethanol, those biofuels will not compete for the world’s food supply and will deliver significant reductions in greenhouse gases.

Which biofuels don't burn carbon dioxide? I suspect that every biofuel out there converts to more CO2 than gasoline and cars need more of it to travel the same miles as gasoline.

[Swiss]

Show me one person who is starving because of US ethanol.

Corn, Wheat, and Rice exports are all at record levels. We have increased our supply of grain to the World.

[aruanan]

We have increased our supply of grain to the World.

Are you sure it's not, "We have increased our Supply of Grain to the World"?

[GOPJ]

Maybe they’ll “rethink” global warming next...

[neverdem]

BTTT!

[steelyourfaith]

From the link:

T"he other reason is a spate of studies suggesting that some biofuels — corn ethanol in particular — could accelerate global warming. Environmentalists had long regarded corn ethanol as at least carbon-neutral, emitting greenhouse gases when burned but absorbing those gases while growing. But rising demand for corn, for fuel and food, can have a profoundly negative effect if it causes farmers to clear previously untouched land, in turn releasing more carbon into the atmosphere"

 

Beam me to Planet Gore !