The Waning Harvest
People in other parts of the world are feeling the pinch of our headlong rush to provide ethanol-infused gasoline as a step toward renewable energy. The problem is not the ethanol but where it’s coming from - corn, a global food staple. So we have a partially renewable fuel but less food. A local gas station is featuring not only ethanol containing gas but also an environmentally friendly car wash. This could be the more important offering for the time being - until we find non-food sources of the ethanol.
October 19th, 2008 at 10:13 am
Hemp can be used in the same way, but God forbid that we ever legalize it even for industrial purposes.