Why is it that in spite of overwhelming evidence that ethanol as a motor vehicle fuel is not the solution to either the carbon emission or the energy independence issue do we still hear politicians promoting its use and car makers promoting their flex fuel vehicles. On a life cycle basis the production and use of ethanol for transportation produces more greenhouse gases than oil.
From an energy independence perspective in spite of what we are led to believe in the media about dependence on middle eastern oil, almost all of the imported oil that the US uses comes from Canada, Mexico and (unfortunately) Venezuela. Only a small part comes from the middle east and the rest from Russia and Nigeria.
Plus the use of land and crops for ethanol production rather than food has raised the prices of almost everything in the food chain.
Sorry Iowa corn farmers but this lunacy has to stop!
The best solution to the transportation problem is to transition as rapidly as possible to an all electric powered fleet of vehicles that are recharged by electricity generated by hundreds of new nuclear plants. That is the only logical and practical way to truly address both problems.
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