The big debate over ethanol continues to fascinate me. I was a young reporter in corn-rich Iowa, during the first ethanol boom, back in the gas-shortage days of the 1980's. We're back at it again, pushing ethanol as a supplement/alternative to gasoline. I'm STILL not convinced that the numbers work out in our favor, neither in the effectiveness of ethanol as a fule nor in it's impact on family farms.
Ethanol Is Feeding Hot Market for Farmland
Skyrocketing farmland prices are stirring optimism, but for young and small-scale farmers, the news is grim [...]
Ethanol Scam: Ethanol Hurts the Environment And Is One of America's Biggest Political Boondoggles
The great danger of confronting peak oil and global warming isn't that we [....]
UPDATE: The Ethanol Industry responds to the Rolling Stone article above...and the article's author reponds to the industry.
Letter To The Editor: Response to "The Ethanol Scam"
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