Saturday, November 16, 2013

How Big Corn Is Killing the Earth (The problem with all of these things, from shale oil, to natural gas, to corn, to windmills and even carpooling is that they are ultimately diverted to the purpose of seeing how many more times we can redouble US population numbers without backsliding on energy, pollution and the quality of life as quickly as we otherwise would--thanks to our open-borders overlords.)



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How Big Corn Is Killing the Earth

When George W. Bush put out the challenge in his 2007 State of the Union address to vastly increase production of alternative forms of energy over the next decade—by more than five times—the United States corn industry was licking its lips.

Experts said at the time that ethanol, a fuel derived mostly from corn, would be the only alternative fuel America could produce domestically at a scale that could meet Bush’s mandate. And produce they did, more than doubling U.S. production of ethanol from 6.5 billion gallons in 2007 to nearly 14 billion gallons in 2011. But rather than helping the environment by encouraging “cleaner, greener” ethanol, the production of the alternative fuel may be damaging the earth even more than before. . . .

http://news.yahoo.com/big-corn-killing-earth-203905103.html