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The problem with ethanol is that the most efficient plants for making it also happen to be food crops.
by SmellyGeekBoy 7y ago
The problem with ethanol is that the most efficient plants for making it also happen to be food crops.
- imtringued 7y agoNo, that's not the problem. The problem is that driving tractors and producing fertilizer requires a lot of fossil fuels.
- rightbyte 7y agoYou can run the tractors on ethanol also, though?
- nickik 7y agoThat's only an issue if you assume that farm land is a limited resource but that not really the problem in practice. There are no fuel shortages just because you have cars that use ethanol. I'm not a huge fan of ethanol specially not how it was handled in the political process (farm subsides) but using it in general is not a bad idea if it can compete.