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Originally Posted by gtahvit
If you two are so sure about this; why don't you start a new thread and state your case? I'd also love to see why you believe this to be true.
In fairness, you may want to search this site before you just jump in on this one.
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I don't have to search this site to know that in south America where they already don't have enough farmland to feed themselves they are cutting down rainforests to grow grain crops to sell to the lucrative ethanol distilleries.
These are the same rainforests that are taking the carbon we make now out of the atmosphere.
These are the same rainforests that the environmentalists have been trying to protect all these years.
These are the same rainforests that they have to BURN to make room for the ethanol crops (reducing them to carbon and putting it into the air).
Oh, and by the way... the soil down there is so poor that they can only grow grains on it for a couple of years before it's useless and they have to move on to ANOTHER rainforest to grow ethanol on.
And don't forget that the rainforest plants are actually many times better at taking carbon out of the atmosphere than the crops that are grown for ethanol.
So what does ethanol contribute to?
1) Starving People
2) Extinct Plants and Animals
3) Large carbon emissions
4) Less efficiant carbon consumption
It's a lose-lose scenario.
Research is currently being done now to create bacteria that creates ethanol from waste, which can eliminate the above problems, and this is possibly the only saving grace for this dangerous fuel.