gacetillero

Brazil, Hold Your Horses on Ethanol Tarriffs

Given the huge amount of fertilizer used in US corn production and the vast dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico, this whole 'glocalism' schtick is just putting lipstick on a pig. Corn ethanol's EROEI is god-awful because of the way that corn is farmed and the way that ethanol is made.

Moreover, given that the US fuel ethanol industry was pretty much invented by ADM - which happens still to be the biggest single producer - the idea that this is realistically going to prevent the market being dominated by large producers is utterly laughable.

Pareto distributions - you familiar with them? They occur in nature for a reason.