It's not easy being green

[jhetley]

According to THE ECONOMIST, if you fill up your SUV with corn ethanol in order to save the planet, you've just used enough maize to feed a person for a year.

This is beside the question of whether corn ethanol from US Agribusiness Inc. provides a net energy gain.

Comments

[david-chunn.livejournal.com]

Ethanol will never be the answer.

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

Works fairly well for Brazil, using sugar cane as a feedstock. Of course, we don't yet know the long-term economics of that.