Ethanol: Is it Worth it?

A reporter from a middle-size Florida newspaper with no axe to grind ... "culled through mounds of (sometimes conflicting) news accounts and scientific reports to get the answers."

The answer to the question, "I Ethanol worth it?" is "No! Ethanol sucks!.. it sucks money, water, mileage, and common sense.

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"New studies, like one published in "Science" magazine in February, ...conclude that whatever gains are made by burning cleaner biofuels are overwhelmed by the negative effects of deforestation. It's not even close."

..."about one-fourth of U.S. corn will be used in ethanol plants this year. That drives up the price, whether you're grilling a burger, making an omelet or drinking a soda that uses corn syrup. With an estimated 3 billion people living on the equivalent of less than $2 a day, even slight increases to staples like corn can be devastating -- "

"If the United States hits its new goals of producing 36 billion gallons of ethanol by 2022, that would replace 1.5 million barrels of oil a day -- or less than 8 percent of America's daily oil consumption in 2006."