The Ethanol Papers - Paperturn manuscript - Flipbook - Page 265
The World Bank's report there has never been another authoritative attempt to
blame ethanol for food price increases.
As for Brazilian deforestation for sugar crops, no, that's incorrect as well. There
has been deforestation in Brazil, but it's not to clear land for sugar cane production. Sugar is grown in other regions. It's similar to the U.S., where the best
regions to grow crops for ethanol are not where the lumber industry gets most
of their lumber.
I'm sure you'll respond and ask me to provide information that supports my
comments. I look forward to hearing back from you, but if you'd like to save a
step you can simply read my 60+ page report titled "Truth About Ethanol..." CLICK HERE to read it.
Follow up from RAYMOND B:
Thanks for the comment. I will look up your report. The articles I've (previously)
read state exactly what I said in my initial comment about ethanol. This is another very politically charged topic. Farmers have profited immensely from ethanol made from corn since corn prices have skyrocketed. They are firm supporters of the efficiency of ethanol fuel.
If all fossil fuels are banned by 2030 there will be no remaining large scale agricultural industry in the USA or the world. Fossil fuels are needed for agriculture
and 17% of all the energy we use is in agriculture. The USA feeds the world.
When we were dependent on the Middle East for oil it made sense to make
ethanol for gasohol. We now are a larger producer of oil than Saudi Arabia and
don't need their oil. We don't even need Canada's shale oil which we have the
refineries to refine.
I remain very skeptical of the claim that oil uses more oil energy than it produces.. I'd want to see proof of that. I also want proof that making gasohol produces more energy than the oil energy used to grow corn , sugar beets or sugar
cane and distill the alcohol from it.
I certainly am interested in knowing the truth and it is getting very hard to find
truth in all the pseudoscientific claims being made on Internet news.
