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.

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[sclerotic-rings.livejournal.com]

And there you run right into the reason why everyone's pushing corn-based ethanol. Archer Daniels Midland can collect subsidies to grow maize for corn syrup and for ethanol, and who really gives a damn whether we have the infrastructure in place to ship and transport that ethanol, anyway?