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Ethanol spews more CO2 than gasoline

Here‘s a slap to the collective faces of environuts everywhere:

Biofuels are making climate change worse, not better, according to two new studies which found that total greenhouse gas emissions from biofuels are far higher than those from burning gasoline because biofuel production is pushing up food prices and resulting in deforestation and loss of grasslands.

“Emissions from ethanol are 93 percent higher than gasoline,” said David Tilman, an ecologist at the University of Minnesota and co-author of one of the papers published Thursday in the journal Science.

“The bottom line is that using good farmland for biofuels increases greenhouse emissions,” he said.

Corn-based ethanol was supposed to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs) by 10 to 20 percent compared to burning gasoline. But previous studies did not account for the real-world fact that when agricultural land is used for fuel there is less land to grow food in a hungry world. That drives up food prices and leads to conversion of forests and native grasslands to grow food.

“Real-world” facts have no use in the moonbatosphere, now do they?  I mean, sure, the planet will starve.  But that only means fewer people to pollute Mother Gaia, so think of it this way: ethanol starves people, which reduces polluting people, which reduces pollution…a huge boon for Mother Gaia, right?

Idiots.

February 9, 2008 - Posted by crushliberalism | environuts, global warming