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Posted at 5:01pm on May 3, 2008 Corn Ethanol: Maybe Not Such a Good Idea After All
By Vladimir
Well, the love affair between the Senate and corn-based ethanol appears over almost before it started. This, from the Wall Street Journal. Link requires subscription. Emphasis added.
Corn Ethanol Loses More Support
Two dozen Republican senators on Friday -- including Republican presidential candidate John McCain (R., Ariz.) -- asked the Environmental Protection Agency to ease requirements mandated by Congress in 2007 to blend more ethanol and other renewable fuels into the gasoline supply.
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Posted at 6:34pm on Apr. 29, 2008 What's the Over/Under on the Ethanol Mandate?
By Vladimir
How long will our crazy rush to corn-based ethanol last?
Environmentalists don't seem to like it; it takes too much water to grow and process, and it doesn't help with the global warming bit. It seems to be an inefficient and nasty fuel, when you get down and deal with the practicalities of it.
Now ADM is playing defense:
Archer Daniels defends ethanol in wake of rising food costs
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Posted at 3:39pm on Nov. 30, 2007 Now Everyone Hates Ethanol
By Vladimir
From the Wall Street Journal:
Ethanol Craze Cools As Doubts Multiply
Of course, in my previous diaries "Here Comes Big Corn" (Jan 07) and "Ethanol, the Green Fuel" (Jun 07) I was just shilling for the oil companies.
But it seems that the push for widespread use of ethanol as a motor fuel is a case study in the Law of Unintended Consequences writ large.
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