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The High Costs of Ethanol September 19, 2007

Filed under: Uncategorized — wipayne @ 5:28 pm

    This articles deals with the production of biofuels. It talks mainly about ethanol, the fuel made from corn. the author talks about how ethanol isn’t a very good alternative compared to the gasoline that we are getting from overseas. In using ethanol the price of corn is going up temendously. The cost of ethanol fuel is about the same as normal gas and the emissions is only about 13 percent less. He says that in using ethanol it is hurting other countries around world because they are going to go hungry because we are using to much corn for our fuel. George Bush in January said he wants to use 35 billion gallons of biofuel by 2017.

This guy is a bum. I think that the production of biofuels could really benefit our country. I think that around the world we have plenty of corn to go around at this point. Just drive through Iowa. If we can become less dependent of oil, then we don’t need to suck up to the middle east anymore. I don’t want to be in debt to the middle east for oil. They will just play us. If we can get fuel from our homeland then why not? Its the same price, and less fuel emmissions. I don’t really see how it can hurt us that badly. Plus if we get on this bandwagon of biofuels, it can only lead to better things. So i think that we should go forward on the production of ehtanol because it is better for our country.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/19/opinion/19wed1.html?ex=1347854400&en=8fc197c4eb405fb0&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

 

One Response to “The High Costs of Ethanol”

  1. pmeeuw Says:

    I appreciate the natural voice you bring to this review, but it’s probably a good idea to refrain from name-calling. Never know who’s out there reading this, huh?

    Besides that, interesting article and good opinion.


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