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required to produce ethanol. I guess no one bothered to inform this professor
of economics that The World Bank long ago retracted their original statement
that food price increases were due to ethanol production (it was their initial report that begat the rising food price lies). And I guess that no one informed Mr.
Weinstein that most of the water required for ethanol production (the growing
of the base crops) comes from rain. And if he's going to use a government report
to diminish the greenhouse gas benefits of ethanol, then he should rely on another study from the same government that states that water needed for ethanol
production has decreased significantly in the last 20 years, and that water requirements for ethanol is just slightly more than the water requirements to produce gasoline.
It's one thing for someone like Robert Bryce to continue clinging to the outdated,
debunked information that he included in his junk book "Gusher Of Lies," but
there's no excuse for Doc Weinstein to do so in a brand new August 2016 report.
The water issue naturally flows into the fertilizer issue (pun intended) because
that's the flow of the sewerage that comes from the mouths of the oil industry's
PR firms. Yes, there is a problem with the fertilizer that flows into and out of the
Mississippi River and the Gulf of Mexico. But not all that fertilizer comes from
corn growing. Lots and lots of runoff comes from growing other crops - Weinstein must know that other crops are grown in the mid-west, don't you think?
In addition, lots of fertilizer runoff comes from the thousands of golf courses
located in the states that border, or have rivers that flow into, the Mississippi
River. Does America really need so many golf courses? C'mon it's just a game,
who needs it?
Then you have all the residential, commercial, and academic properties that
use fertilizers for their green areas. So, unless Mr. Weinstein is a great lover of
Iowa wine (yeech!), and therefore is seeking to protect it, how can he ignore all
these other contributors to the fertilizer problem.
And how is it possible for Mr. Weinstein to not know that all the algae that grow
in the Gulf of Mexico from the fertilizer runoff could be turned into ethanol...enough ethanol that it might supply the entire needs of the country? And it
doesn't even need rain water!
Unless Bernard Weinstein and his related institutions are receiving hundreds of
millions of dollars from the oil industry for his endorsement there is no reason
or excuse for him to write his IBD article. As I've written in a previous article,
