The government has been forcing corn ethanol into your gas tank for a while now, and it’s been a scientific fact that this was bad for engines and emissions. That’s been crazy talk for ten years, but there’s been a disturbance in the political force. Suddenly ethanol is bad.
From that right-wing conspiracy rag, Reuters. “Corn-based ethanol, which for years has been mixed in huge quantities into gasoline sold at U.S. pumps, is likely a much bigger contributor to global warming than straight gasoline, according to a study published Monday.”
The study was commissioned by F. Joe Biden’s Department of Agriculture. They are reviewing biofuels as part of their F-America Green Energy Agenda. You know, the plan to cut off all affordable and reliable energy without adequate capacity to replace it. This research will inform policy which is to say it was probably requested to justify the desired policy change.
And King Corn gets “cobbed” in the process.
“Corn ethanol is not a climate-friendly fuel,” said Dr. Tyler Lark, assistant scientist at University of Wisconsin-Madison Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment and lead author of the study.
The research, which was funded in part by the National Wildlife Federation and U.S. Department of Energy, found that ethanol is likely at least 24% more carbon-intensive than gasoline due to emissions resulting from land use changes to grow corn, along with processing and combustion.
That’s a big ear to chew and King corn is pushing back. They point to another government study in 2019 that claims the opposite, thanks to carbon sequestration benefits gained from “planting new cropland.”
So, we’ve got one side saying farming makes ramming corn into gas tanks bad and another saying it’s good (when the real problem is that burning it is bad). The rest is just Green Chess with pretend offsets for a trace gas that can’t do what they claim -not a stretch because neither can they.
So, here’s a crazy idea. Why not keep planting corn (benefits the environment) and stop stuffing it into motor fuel (benefits the environment).
We can then save billions on taxpayer incentives that prop up the cellulose fuel market.
We can lower manufacturing (refining and blending) costs, which could translate to lower prices at the pump.
Lower-cost corn, thanks to surplus, is good both domestically and globally, increasing access to major foodstuff that feeds billions all over the planet, meaning less starvation.
Oh, and none of this has anything to do with the environment.
Corn is only in fuel because of lobbying and lying. Ethanol being good or bad, is more or less a lot of the same. But at the end of the day, gasoline is cleaner without it, and we’ve known that for a very long time. But the fact that Biden and Gren’s groups are colluding to end the practice makes me wonder.
Why?
What changed politically?
Exit Question: Do they want that cropland for solar farms and if they take ethanol out of motor fuel it will free up millions of acres.
