Insert from the Rocky Mountain News on August 24, 2007
David Pimentel, a professor at Cornell University known for his research in alternative fuels, denounces corn-based ethanol. He is among the critics who say production of one gallon of ethanol uses more than a thousand gallons of water.
2007-08-29 09:26:25 · 13 answers · asked by $1,539,684,631,121 Clinton Debt 6 in Politics & Government ➔ Other - Politics & Government
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2007-08-29 12:43:22 · update #1
The use of ethanol as an alternative fuel is a bad idea. Not only does it require much water but it also requires the burning of fossil fuels. Burning ethanol creates more carbon dioxide than burning gasoline.
Ethanol is only a good idea if you don't consider the reduction of global warming to be an environmental priority.
2007-08-29 09:30:48 · answer #1 · answered by anonacoup 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
The diesel engine was designed with vegetable oil fuel in mind. The push towards ethanol was a gimme to Archer Daniels Midland and the rest of the vast agribusiness lobby. Oil can be pressed using other energy sources than petrodiesel. We have wind turbines, biomass, photovoltaic, and hydrogen fuel cells that would work as well. I know several people who make their own biodiesel from used restaurant fryer grease for about a buck a gallon. Think there's not enough acreage to grow all of those crops? Why not plant gardens on all of those multi-acre factory roofs? We don't have an energy crisis so much as we have a crisis of vision........or lack thereof, as it were.
2016-05-21 01:37:53 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am not sure of that, but it makes sense. What I do know is that making ethanol from corn has caused the price of food to sky-rocket. It is the height of immorality to allow people to starve while lining the pockets of ADM(big corn) and other producers of this inferior fuel(don't think so, DO a mil age check and you will see that your vehicle gets about 12% more milage using straight gas)
2007-08-29 09:31:52 · answer #3 · answered by espreses@sbcglobal.net 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Ethanol isn't the answer -- not only uses too much water, drives up corn prices -- which makes milk, beef and chicken more expensive -- ethanol is being pushed by big agriculture -- ADM etc.
2007-08-29 09:32:38 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Isn't Ethanol made from a crop of specialized corn?
So where does the water get involved.
Washing the corn?
2007-08-29 09:49:23 · answer #5 · answered by scottanthonydavis 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
You might be right. I personally run on ethanol and in the mornings I require a lot of water.
2007-08-29 10:06:50 · answer #6 · answered by Jose R 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
But it's so efficient once you add in all the federal subsidies!
Save a penny at the pump, pay two more in taxes, plus higher prices for corn, it all adds up to campaign donations.
2007-08-29 09:32:26 · answer #7 · answered by open4one 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
considering you need water in order to grow the corn for ethanol... that doesn't surprise me.
2007-08-29 09:39:33 · answer #8 · answered by Lily Iris 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
why are you passing yourself off as Ron with Reagan's picture ?
corn based ethanol isn't the direction we are headed in.
whats he say about saw grass ?
2007-08-29 09:40:13 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
and did you know that none of that water is actually destroyed and can be used over and over and over again...
2007-08-29 09:36:55 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋