Al Gores Ethanol creates the new dead sea

Al Gore, Green revolution, evironmental policy, ethanol, corn, fuel alternatives, energy policy, watershed, midwest, inconvenient truth - HUMAN EVENTS: “All in all, it takes 1.597 gallons of diesel and gasoline used in the corn crop growth, harvesting, shipping of corn to ethanol production, and distribution of ethanol to the consumer for every 1 gallon of ethanol that is produced. And, again, that 1 gallon of ethanol is going to be 20-30% less efficient than the gallon of gasoline it is replacing.
Most of the new ethanol production plants (called dry mill operations) are now being built to use coal as their primary source of power, mostly because the natural gas that was initially used has become so expensive. The coal-fired plants produce twice the emissions and essentially cancel out the global warming benefits of the use of ethanol fuel in vehicles. Putting more E85 vehicles on the road will actually increase greenhouse gases, smog, respiratory ailments, etc.

And, it is the sharp increase in nutrient runoff which is magnifying the green “Dead Zone” in the Gulf.

Al Gore, I apologize for all of these facts. Just look at them as another “Inconvenient Truth.””

As you pointed out there are many reasons why corn based ethanol is not the answer. You missed one big point. Ethanol is driving up the cost of corn and the cost of everything that contains and eats corn. Americans have to pay that cost every time we go to the store. For the poor of the world like in Mexico this is a tremendous hardship.

The problem with environmentalists is that their legislations and their solutions are sometimes founded on junk science or a knee-jerk reactions to their radicals. Therefore, we have the DDT ban that resulted in the death of million of people caused by Malaria to save eagles, and DDT was not the issue. We have fuel additives taken away and substituted with worse additives that polluted much of the ground water in the US. They are now pushing Ethanol which does not save energy, costs more and does much more environment and human damage then gas. Oversight of the know-it-alls that force this stuff on us has been lacking because politicians are afraid to take any stance that does not appear green. Therefore, the radicals drive the political action and the consequences is radically predictable. If we allow this with the CO2 reduction hysteria we will rue the day.