Comments on: More Important Issues that No One Talks About http://cephyn.com/2007/04/23/more-important-issues-that-no-one-talks-about/ Tue, 06 Jan 2009 04:19:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2 By: Rich http://cephyn.com/2007/04/23/more-important-issues-that-no-one-talks-about/#comment-558 Rich Tue, 24 Apr 2007 21:22:24 +0000 http://cephyn.com/2007/04/23/more-important-issues-that-no-one-talks-about/#comment-558 Interesting article. I was actually reading some reviews of The Omnivore's Dilemma (same author) the other day and contemplating buying it. As I understand it, the corn subsidies also hurt the clean fuel movement. There are much better sources of ethanol but due to these incentives they are mostly ignored in favor of corn. The end result is non-sustainable; it takes more energy to create the ethanol than the ethanol yields, which means fossil-fuels have to be used in production. Interesting article. I was actually reading some reviews of The Omnivore’s Dilemma (same author) the other day and contemplating buying it.

As I understand it, the corn subsidies also hurt the clean fuel movement. There are much better sources of ethanol but due to these incentives they are mostly ignored in favor of corn. The end result is non-sustainable; it takes more energy to create the ethanol than the ethanol yields, which means fossil-fuels have to be used in production.

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