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The DOE lists three benefits - energy security, jobs and offset carbon emissions. If the net carbon one turns out to be bogus, the other two benefits remain ht
by hammock 4y ago
The DOE lists three benefits - energy security, jobs and offset carbon emissions. If the net carbon one turns out to be bogus, the other two benefits remain
https://afdc.energy.gov/fuels/ethanol_benefits.html https://afdc.energy.gov/fuels/ethanol_benefits.html
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 4y agoJobs for the jobs god is just the broken window fallacy though. If employing people in ethanol production is hastening the ruination of our environment, lets just give them money not to do that instead.
- hammock 4y agoWe do that too. It doesn’t work: https://www.politico.com/news/2021/08/29/usda-farmers-conservation-program-507028 https://www.politico.com/news/2021/08/29/usda-farmers-conser...
- ch4s3 4y agoMostly it pulls those people away from more economically productive activities. What might those farmers otherwise plant? What about the associated ag businesses? Surely they wouldn't evaporate. And the ethanol processing plants could probably make other distilled products for industrial use.