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[Hater Depot]

http://www.tnr.com/blog/the-vine/the-gao-takes-corn-ethanol

[Rusty Shackleford]

Unintended consequences in action. When govts give favors to special interest groups, there are always negative knock-on effects that weren't intended, but entirely predictable.

[blade]

Here is an excellent piece by George Monbiot on the subject of bio fuels.


http://www.monbiot.com/archives/2007/03/27/a-lethal-solution/
A Lethal Solution
Posted March 27, 2007
We need a five-year freeze on biofuels, before they wreck the planet.By George Monbiot. Published in the Guardian 27th March 2007.

It used to be a matter of good intentions gone awry. Now it is plain fraud. The governments using biofuel to tackle global warming know that it causes more harm than good. But they plough on regardless.

In theory, fuels made from plants can reduce the amount of carbon dioxide emitted by cars and trucks. Plants absorb carbon as they grow - it is released again when the fuel is burnt. By encouraging oil companies to switch from fossil plants to living ones, governments on both sides of the Atlantic claim to be �decarbonising� our transport networks.

[Rusty Shackleford]

[DrugstoreCowgirl]

Not to mention that ethanol is ruining cars. I don't know how it is in other states, but Florida recently passed a law that requires all gasoline to contain ethanol. My parents cars were having problems so they took them to the mechanic and he said that he gets cars with this problem all the time because the cars aren't made to run on ethanol and it is ruining the engines.