Sunday November 22nd, 2009
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U.S. Eases Pollution Rules for Ethanol Plants
from Reuters
The U.S. government said on Thursday it would allow corn milling facilities that make ethanol for fuel to spew more pollution before certain clean air rules are triggered, which could boost available ethanol supplies.
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Let me see if we have this right... We encourage ethanol production because as a fuel it pollutes less - so to be sure we have lots of it, the government relaxes the rules on the refiners allowing them to pollute more while they produce it.... 'sucuze me? Does anyone else think there's something seriously wrong with this decision??
Some argue we need to relax the standards on Ethanol because it's something we can make ourselves - thereby providing us higher 'energy security'. Are we forgetting that it takes more fuel to produce ethanol than you get out of the process?
Setting aside from the fact that producing Ethanol already pollutes more than refining gasoline with this kind of thinking we might as well just start making coal burning cars. After all we have a 250 year supply of coal right here at home - what's more secure than that?
How about NOT buring the fuel in the first place?