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Esquire: The case for corn

Aug 13th 2007 1:53PM - 14 Comments

Chuck Klosterman watched the "Live Green" Superbowl ad. Then he bought a flex fuel car. In this article from Esquire, he made an incredible argument for ethanol of the like I have never seen before. I think it reflects a lot of people that support ...

Is corn tricking us into making ethanol?

Feb 18th 2008 10:03AM - 13 Comments

We (humans) tend to see ourselves as having dominion over nature. We take and destroy when we cut down trees and harvest crops. But here's a question: What if, like with bees, plants are actually using us and they are getting more out of the farming ...

Ethanol eating up 20 percent of American corn

May 15th 2006 1:31PM - 1 Comment

Next year, twenty percent of the corn grown in the United States will be turned into ethanol, according to this article from Reuters. The increase in ethanol production (ethanol will take 2.15 billion bushels of this year's corn crop as opposed to ...

Getting more ethanol from less corn

Apr 27th 2007 6:56PM - 11 Comments

I'm pretty sure that by now most readers of this site can explain the difference between ethanol made from grains like corn and cellulosic ethanol. But, here is a nice article from What's Next Network that explains some of the differences and what ...

Bush thinks ethanol is increasing price of corn

Mar 6th 2008 6:35PM - 24 Comments

Although some have argued, even recently, that the drive to convert large amounts of farming acreage to ethanol production has had no effect on the prices people pay for food, that is not the memo our prez has received. I guess someone in Washington ...

Crop rotation - corn to alfalfa and back, plus its effect on ethanol

Aug 14th 2007 1:48PM - 0 Comments

There is a danger in planting corn over and over again in the same field. If the crops are never rotated, the soil quality suffers immensely, which is why farmers usually rotate their crops from year to year. However, many are expecting that the ...

Forum Fodder: Definitive proof that ethanol is not creating a food corn shortage?

Mar 4th 2008 5:12PM - 13 Comments

GM Inside News forum member HoosierRon has posted what he feels is "definitive proof that ethanol is not creating a food corn shortage." He goes on to give real raw data to support his claims. His data concentrates on the amount of corn produced in ...

Robert Kennedy Jr. promotes cellulosic ethanol instead of corn ethanol

Mar 30th 2007 4:21PM - 2 Comments

Robert Kennedy Jr. recently spoke at a press conference in the Bloomington, Illinios area, and gave his opinions on ethanol production. Kennedy suggests, quite correctly, that it takes too much corn from the food arena to create ethanol fuel from ...

Gulf of Mexico "dead zone" expanding, possibly due to corn bubble

Jan 6th 2008 5:13PM - 17 Comments

American farmers use a lot of fertilizer on their crops and much of that fertilizer ends up running off the fields before it's absorbed by the plants. When that happens it ends up in streams and rivers. In the central part of the United States where ...

Mexico wants to limit corn ethanol with "Food comes first" law

Oct 25th 2007 10:45AM - 3 Comments

One more position in the food vs. biofuel debate, this one clearly slated towards food. México is about to pass an amendment to the "Ley de Bioenergéticos" (Bioenergy sources law) that clearly states that "Corn will only be used for ...

U.S. sugar tariffs may prove saving grace to South American corn growers

Jul 28th 2006 8:09AM - 1 Comment

As Autoblog Green has previously reported, U.S. tariffs on sugar has effectively barred Brazil and other nations with their less expensive and more efficient sugar-based ethanol from competing in the U.S., giving American corn and soy growers the ...

Chickens against corn ethanol

Jun 16th 2008 1:46PM - 1 Comment

Photo by mrebert. Licensed under Creative Commons license 2.0. Last month, Texas asked the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to halve the nationwide renewable fuels standard (RFS) because it believes "implementation of the RFS would severely ...

King Corn documentary opens tomorrow

Oct 11th 2007 4:20PM - 2 Comments

Want to spend an hour and a half with corn, but don't want to eat anything or drive an ethanol-fueled car? Starting tomorrow, at least in New York, you can check out a new documentary film called King Corn. Two young men set about trying to grow ...

Corn growers happy with ethanol demand

Jun 1st 2006 11:04AM - 3 Comments

While ethanol naysayers and even analysts are expressing worry about the divergence of corn from food stock to ethanol production, corn farmers are more than happy to reap golden profit. "This doesn't happen often," says farmer Ken McCauley to ...

Raising voices about corn ethanol

Jul 14th 2007 11:17AM - 4 Comments

Food & Water Watch, the Network for Energy Choices and the Institute for Energy and the Environment at Vermont Law School are on the quest of creating a report called "The Rush to Ethanol: Not all BioFuels are created equal". They affirm that, ...

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