America’s Corn-Based Idiocy
September 20th, 2007 | Posted in Agriculture, Energy, Politics, Society, Technology
Please remain calm and in a single-file line or we’ll Taser you until you wet yourself. I’d like to share with you an editorial from the International Herald Tribune, a New York Times outfit but still a decent clear-headed international voice in a time of extreme ignorance and jingoism. As those who rely on science, and not politics, to make sound decisions have repeatedly pointed out, corn-based ethanol is a veritable Trojan horse. On the outside, a beautiful steed, marketed as America’s release from the grips of evil oil-based terrorists (Bush/Cheney?); a gorgeous maize-colored coat blowing in the wind, out-dramatized by only a giant, waving Stars-and-Stripes. Inside, a siphon of reason and cheap food and subsidies, wasting water and polluting on mind-blowing scales. For more on this:
Powering America, One Corn Flake At A Time
If corn-based ethanol is the new American energy of choice, it’s in for a world of hurt.
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One Response to “America’s Corn-Based Idiocy”
By James K. Bashkin on Oct 10, 2007
Well said! I have some related comments on my site, http://greenchemistry.wordpress.com/, including discussions of the huge effect corn to ethanol is having on food prices, without any effect on oil prices, and also evidence that the “greenness” of ethanol as a fuel is false from a health perspective- this from Brazil, where 100% ethanol-powered cars have been around for a while, and the air has much more ozone and formaldehyde than “good old normal polluted air from hydrocarbon fuel”.