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07/18/2007: "Biofuels a dead end, says report, outraging armchair liberals"

The report concludes that the rapidly growing and heavily subsidised corn
ethanol industry in the US will cause significant environmental damage
without significantly reducing the country's dependence on fossil fuels.

"There are smarter solutions than rushing straight to corn-based ethanol,"
says Scott Cullen of the Network for New Energy Choices (NNEC) and a
co-author of the study. "It's just one piece of a more complex puzzle."

[ But it was going to be so easy, and so profitable... just like gasoline, but made from eco-friendly products, so it can't be bad, right? Oh, it's a complex puzzle... well my morality and television and monetary outlook don't support those! ]


http://environment.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn12283