This weeks Time Magazine had a cover story on how ethanol is not the clean fuel it is made out to be. The article details how ethanol is destroying the environment, increasing global warming and increasing the price of food. The unintended consequences of using ethanol as a fuel far outweigh the benefits of it been a renewable energy source.
Read the complete article at The Clean Energy Scam
As you are reading this article here are some facts to chew on.
1. 365 days one person could be fed on the corn needed to fill an ethanol fueled SUV
2. $100 Billion is the estimated size of the 2010 biofuel market
3. 750,000 acres of Brazilian rain forest lost in the last six months of 2007 (equal to the size of the entire state of Rhode Island)
Also read my previous posts about Ethanol and Global Warming
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