{"id":1903,"date":"2002-04-11T13:07:31","date_gmt":"2002-04-11T18:07:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=1903"},"modified":"2002-04-11T13:07:31","modified_gmt":"2002-04-11T18:07:31","slug":"gas_pumps_as_hi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/04\/11\/gas_pumps_as_hi.html","title":{"rendered":"Gas pumps as high as an elephant’s eye"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s a big debate brewing in the Senate over mandating a significantly increased use of ethanol<\/a> in vehicle fuels.<\/p>\n

Pros?<\/p>\n

  • Reduced dependance on foreign oil imports.*\n
  • It’s a renewable resource.*\n
  • Help for farmers.\n
  • Corn likes to eat CO2<\/sub>.<\/p>\n

    Cons?<\/p>\n

  • 40% of ethanol production is owned by Archer Daniels Midland.<\/p>\n

    And, perhaps, one other con, which would counter the asterisks (*) above. Does ethanol use reduce oil imports?<\/p>\n

    Maybe not. As you may recall from the beef story <\/a>— and similar stats are quoted in this news article — there’s a lot of petroleum-based fertilizer that goes into corn production. Depending on who you believe, it actually might cost more <\/i>oil to produce that ethanol than its use will save. That leaves alone the pollution from nitrous fertilizers used in corn growing.<\/p>\n

    I’d really like to believe in use of ethanol — it seems <\/i>like an easy, “green” way to wean us off of petroleum. I’m just not sure that it isn’t a used-to-be-Dole-now-it’s-Daschle pork barrel for his corporate sponsors and farmland constituents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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