Another nail hit the ethanol coffin this week:
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/manitoba/story/2007/03/30/ethanol-emissions.html
Basically, a report from scientists working for the government of Canada found that burning ethanol in a car is no better in terms of greenhouse gases than regular gasoline is. Really, when you think of it, it’s worse. All of that corn has to be grown by farmers using alot of petrochemicals and machinary. Then it is trucked around the country in gas burning trucks. Then it goes through a polluting refining process that burns more fuel. It ends up worse than if we just burned the first fuel, gas.
I’m really hoping that someone will inject some common sense into all of these bio-fuel schemes before western governments bind themselves into producing and distributing the stuff for decades.