Doug Struck, Miller-McCune.com. August 31, 2009. While the corn ethanol bubble has pretty much popped, serious efforts to find an economically sound and carbon-smart biological-based fuel continue.
Matthew Cimitile, Daily Climate. April 23, 2009. Corn is no better -- and might be worse -- than petroleum when total greenhouse gas emissions are considered.
Robert Glennon, Huffington Post. December 23, 2008. While many of ethanol's problems (energy inputs, land use, food prices) have been discussed, we have overlooked its true Achilles heel: water.
Jill Richardson, AlterNet. October 7, 2008. A bunch of multinationals have figured out how to make their pollution-based businesses seem like the solution to the climate crisis.
George Naylor, Irene Lin, AlterNet. August 7, 2008. Ethanol critics need to be wary before they jump aboard the anti-ethanol campaigns and let off the hook the real bad actors behind our food crisis.
Frances Cerra Whittelsey, The Nation. August 6, 2008. Reducing our meat consumption may not be popular, but we need to view our love affair with burgers in the same frame as gas-guzzling SUVs.
Nicole Colson, CounterPunch. July 14, 2008. The ethanol scam shows that corporate, market-based "solutions" to global warming and oil dependence are no solution at all.
Amy Goodman, King Features Syndicate. May 1, 2008. If our government and large food and energy interests don't change direction, the food riots in distant lands will soon be coming to their doors.
BoRev, BoRev AlterNet: PEEK. May 1, 2008. Castro and Chavez were right, the Hertitage Foundation was wrong. Ethanol is having a negative impact on world food supply.
Adam Howard, AlterNet AlterNet: Democracy and Elections. January 4, 2008. "All these candidates go out to Iowa and pay homage to ethanol, which is not going to solve our global warming problem," says Maher.
Robert Bryce, The Washington Spectator. July 7, 2007. The inconvenient truth is that ethanol is bad for taxpayers, bad for air quality, bad for people who like to eat, and it will have no real effect on America's overall energy mix -- too bad DC's politicians won't say anything about it.
David Morris, AlterNet. June 13, 2007. In the last few years, the environmental community has begun attacking corn-derived ethanol. Although imperfect, there are reasons to give ethanol a fair trial.
Lisa M. Hamilton, AlterNet. May 25, 2007. From the news these days you'd think farmers have never had a better friend than ethanol. But if you actually are a farmer, ethanol, with the high corn prices it brings, is looking less and less like a blessing -- and more like a curse.
Murray Dobbin, The Tyee. April 10, 2007. As much as we may hope to the contrary, ethanol will not save us. Instead it will lead to more food and water shortages, and feed our unchecked consumption.
Isabella Kenfield, International Relations Center. March 12, 2007. Brazil is the global leader in ethanol exports and the U.S. is Brazil's biggest importer. But many fear that what appears to be an economic panacea may be a social and ecological disaster.
Robert Bryce, CounterPunch. March 5, 2007. While politicians and Big Agriculture insist on casting the need for ethanol in terms of national security, the larger issue is a moral one: are we going to use our precious farmland to grow food, or use it to make motor fuel?
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