The U.S. Corn-to-Ethanol Program
..... The US has been spending energy and
other resources which produced CO2 emissions, and billions of dollars
for about 8 years to build out the enterprise (cropping +
corn-to-ethanol processing + gather/transport/blending), plus spending
about 30 - 45 billion dollars in subsidies, tax credits and depreciation
write-offs to achieve next to nothing regarding reducing the CO2
equivalent emissions of light duty vehicles. In fact, the
corn-to-ethanol enterprise, on an A to Z basis, likely produced a net
INCREASE in CO2 emissions.
Far
greater CO2 emission reductions, at a much lesser use of energy and
other resources, and at a much lesser capital cost, would be achieved
just by increasing the CAFE requirements. No wonder the US
corn-to-ethanol program is seen as an expensive, ineffective folly in
foreign lands.....
Read the entire article at:
http://theenergycollective.com/willem-post/287061/us-corn-ethanol-program
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