Food fight: White Castle vs biofuels
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Restaurant chains are complaining that using corn to make ethanol is pushing up food prices.
This is a very good argument, and hopefully, someone will be smart enough to eventually realize that making ethanol for fuel is a net-energy loser. More energy is consumed making the ethanol than the energy the ethanol can deliver. You also cannot divorce ethanol from fossil-fuels. It takes loads of diesel to run the tractors and trucks used to farm the corn to be made into ethanol. It takes natural gas to make the fertilizer to grow the corn, and it takes petrochemicals to make pesticides/herbicides to protect the plants from insects and weeds. Therefore, initiatives to make corn-based ethanol as a renewable fuels is one big heaping scam. Farmers are loving the subsidies the government is giving them for this, however.
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Restaurant chains are complaining that using corn to make ethanol is pushing up food prices.
This is a very good argument, and hopefully, someone will be smart enough to eventually realize that making ethanol for fuel is a net-energy loser. More energy is consumed making the ethanol than the energy the ethanol can deliver. You also cannot divorce ethanol from fossil-fuels. It takes loads of diesel to run the tractors and trucks used to farm the corn to be made into ethanol. It takes natural gas to make the fertilizer to grow the corn, and it takes petrochemicals to make pesticides/herbicides to protect the plants from insects and weeds. Therefore, initiatives to make corn-based ethanol as a renewable fuels is one big heaping scam. Farmers are loving the subsidies the government is giving them for this, however.