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The Lunacy of Ethanol: Proof That U.S. Politicians Could Care Less About CO2 Emissions

Read here, here and here. There are a multitude of good reasons why subsidizing ethanol production and mandating its use is plain craziness. The most important reason though, is the fact that a gallon of ethanol spews more CO2 than a gallon of gas (we should replace all ethanol with oil-based gas that comes from U.S. resources - "drill baby, drill" policies). If the politicians and the EPA really felt CO2 was a harmful pollutant, and would endanger not only humans but the climate also, they would be morally be obligated to immediately kill the subsidies and mandates. Obviously, it's all about money and control, not reducing CO2 emissions.

"Replacing the US gasoline consumption of 138 billion gallons annually with ethanol biofuel — just as the government energy policy wants to do — would add about 138 billion pounds of carbon dioxide annually from renewable ethanol biofuel. This is an additional 69 million tons of carbon dioxide into the air annually. The government energy policy would increase rather than decrease carbon dioxide into the air, just the opposite of what the government climate policy wants to do."

The Lurking Biofuel Disaster Caused By U.S. Congress: Gigantic Fresh Water Waste In Biofuel Production Will Cause Water Shortage Study Indicates

Read here. As previous experts have found, promoting increased production of biofuels has many negatives, including:

• Produce little or no additional energy.
• Can damage vehicle engines not designed to run on ethanol.
• Result in greater CO₂ emissions than fossil fuel.
• Causes rising food prices either directly or by competing with food crops.
• Encourage clearing of forest lands.
• Increase use of fertilizer leading to greater runoff and NO_x emissions.
• Produce less energy than simply burning the biomass to produce electricity
• Are only commercially viable with government subsidies and forced use mandates.

Now add 20,000 gallons of fresh water needed for a single gallon of biofuel as another large negative that scientists have documented. This incredibly stupid idea for biofuel energy has been legislated by Congress, renowned globally for its corruption by lobbyists, and, of course, its amazing scientific idiocy. Letting these same people make any decisions on CO2 emissions, global warming and/or climate change legislation and regulation is another disaster that can be avoided - starting in 2010, all politicians supporting 'cap & trade' policies need to be voted out of office.

Why Congress Shouldn't Be Allowed To Make Science Decisions: The Political Class Chose to Push Ethanol, Which Creates Even More CO2

Read here, here, here and here. Congress was told by anti-fossil fuel scientists and corporate lobbyists that ethanol would reduce CO2 emissions. Sooo, they voted for more ethanol subsidies and increased production of ethanol. They were wrong (like usual). Time to ban Congress from making any other idiotic CO2 decisions?

#42. Key Finding of International Scientific Panel's Analysis of Climate-Change

Synopsis: The incredibly stupid decision by politicians and bureaucrats to promote ethanol production, based on climate 'alarmist' scientists' recommendations, has had harmful effects on the economy and environment.

OECD Warns Governments That Support Of Biofuels Is Idiotic - Too Costly, Little Benefit

Read here.