More On Problems With Ethanol

By Nancy Smith of sunshinestatenews.com. Excerpts:

"It would be one thing if ethanol were actually good for cars or the environment, but that's not the case. "[Ethanol is] an inferior fuel that damages automobile engines and fuel systems, it's bad for the environment, it has forced U.S. taxpayers to spend billions of dollars in ethanol subsidies, it requires more energy to produce than it generates, and it raises fuel and food prices for consumers," American Enterprise Institute scholar Mark Perry wrote in 2013. "On a purely economic and scientific basis, corn ethanol is an inferior, costly fuel that wouldn't even come close to being a viable energy product."

Even Al Gore has called it a "mistake.""

"Ethanol uses up 40 percent of America's corn crop, forces up the prices of corn products, is as harmful to the environment as it is helpful. The Iowa economy will be hurt during the inevitable adjustment, but even environmentalist Robert Means, Johns Hopkins University climate and policy professor, confirmed on C-Span that ethanol is not the best renewable fuel source."