But ethanol is subsidized with at least 5 Billion of our tax dollars.
The runoff with all the fertilizer in it from farming the corn flows down to the Mississippi and is a component of enlarging the “dead zone” at the mouth of the river in the gulf.
The amount of diesel used to harvest the corn is immense
I forget what fuel is used to refine the corn to ethanol, but I think it is coal.
Ethanol, the way we create it here in the USA is a lose-lose situation.
It takes about 32% more energy to produce than is received from it.
Plus it brings the MPG down when it is used.
Sure, that post I replied to was the wrong unit of measure for ethanol. My bad. I was thinking per gallon, because as your post notes, ethanol only exists because of subsidies. And a lot of that taxpayer money is in turn used to re-elect the pols who vote for it.