New Study Finds That Even the Good Kind of Ethanol is Terrible
21st April 2014
The United States has spent much of the last 30 years subsidizing ethanol production under the pretense that it’s more environmentally friendly than gasoline. I say “pretense” because for years it’s been completely obvious that corn ethanol is actually worse for the environment, that the overall production cycle stokes global warming even more than typical fuel, and that, in addition, it drives up world food prices, contributing to global hunger problems in the process. Also, it makes your gasoline less efficient. And yet this is something that we’ve repeatedly mandated and paid for.