Don't forget that the entire Ethanol lobby is paid for by the US government, as a way to justify their massive subsidies to US corn farmers.
It's a (somewhat debatable) fact that adding up the greenhouse gas emissions from the production of ethanol, then the burning of ethanol, are far higher than the production and burning of gasoline... and that creating ethanol uses more energy than ethanol produces.
Not that it matters. What matters is that the population become green conscious and that corporations and governments become more green conscious so that our culture changes, and more money is spent on research so that we can find alternative fuel sources that don't pollute and are economically feasible.
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