Slashdot is now covering a topic that was first reported by Nature about 3 weeks ago. Ethanol is not without its own environmental problems. This new scrutiny of Ethanol comes from its own increased popularity as a fuel.
Nonetheless, Ethanol is not doomed. Ethanol is about shifting to problems you can manage. Any shift to Ethanol comes with it’s own consequences – both positive and negative. The more important debate is whether we can manage Ethanol’s drawbacks better than the consequences of importing large amounts of oil. I suspect the problems with producing Ethanol will be manageable over time. And I doubt the U.S. military has plans to take over Mexico, Venezuela, Canada and Saudi Arabia to keep our foreign oil supply under control.
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