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Study: modern ethanol plants are A-OK for this one land use issue

Conflicting study overload. That's the only way to explain all the messages that we're getting regarding biofuels recently. They speed up global warming. Ethanol is no better than gasoline. You know what I mean. Here's another one, courtesy of the totally non-biased Illinois Corn Growers Association. The findings this time are that "a modern ethanol plant does not meaningfully change farmland use, neither the amount of land farmed nor the mix of crops planted (e.g., corn, soybeans)." Apparently, the ICGA felt the need to counter the "often ... Read more →

Robert Kennedy Jr. promotes cellulosic ethanol instead of corn ethanol Jeremy Korzeniewski

Study: modern ethanol plants are A-OK for this one land use issue 9 months ago on Autoblog Green

Robert Kennedy Jr. promotes cellulosic ethanol instead of corn ethanol 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

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 that particular crop, and instead believes that ...

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