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Ethanol: Our Answer to Reducing U.S. Dependence on Foreign Oil

The answer to the energy crisis is not to produce more energy. It is to drastically alter our lifestyles and stop being the 10% of the world population that uses most of the energy. Stop driving three blocks to pick up a DVD. Stop living in 3000 square foot mansions for two people that need huge amounts of power to heat, cool, and run the appliances, including that energy inefficient sub zero. Stop using up the remaining oil that our children's children will need. Stop depending on God "technology" to come up with a miracle when we need it. Wake up and look around.

Cramer: "Ethanol Is a Fuel That Doesn't Work"

It takes almost as much energy from oil (fertilizer and pesticide and transport) to grow and process corn into ethanol as is derived. A moronic equation.

Now There's An Ethanol Glut?! I Thought We Couldn't Make Enough

Anyone who thinks ethanol is the "answer" to the energy "problem" has no idea of the issues involved. As others have pointed out, ethanol produces much less energy than gas by volume and weight, and the production CURRENTLY, until the advent of workable cellulosic ethanol, is a zero sum game, with heavy government support of corn production (subsidy) and huge amounts of oil needed to produce the fertilizer and pesticides to grow the corn. It does not compute yet.