Posted on 02/15/2022 5:20:45 PM PST by george76
Corn-based ethanol may be more emission-intensive than previously thought and is likely contributing to more emissions than gasoline, a new study finds.
The study, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, suggests that the environmental benefits of the U.S. renewable fuel standard (RFS) remain unclear.
Under the Renewable Fuel Standard, oil refiners are required to blend growing amounts of renewable fuels into gasoline and diesel.
The RFS raised corn prices, which in turn expanded the land used for corn crops. This increases emissions from the conversion of land to corn crops, and raises fertilizer and water usage, says the study, funded in part by the National Wildlife Federation.
These changes increased annual nationwide fertilizer use by 3 to 8%, increased water quality degradants by 3 to 5%, and caused enough domestic land use change emissions such that the carbon intensity of corn ethanol produced under the RFS is no less than gasoline and likely at least 24% higher,
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Corn ethanol is not a climate-friendly fuel,” Tyler Lark, Assistant Scientist at University of Wisconsin-Madison Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment (SAGE) and lead author of the study
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It’s always those pesky unintended consequences that’ll get you every time.
Diluting the gasoline never made any sense to me.
Only a fool puts corn oil (or whatever that crap is) into a combustible engine. May as well unleash Termites in your attic for “environmental safety.”
For nearly 16 years now, I have only used NON-ETHANOL gas and always use www.puregas.org to find stations which supply it.
Never underestimate the power of the ag lobby.
That’s why food stamps are under Dept of Agriculture, not HHS.
Ethanol bad for cars
Ethanol good for people
Butanol bad for people
Butanol good for cars
Nahhhh, you’re kidding?!
It made fuel mileage worse and was always an agribusiness political scam.
Diluting the gasoline never made any sense to me.
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Well, other than giving the State and Federal governments
more tax dollars, it doesn’t.
It is.
Worse mileage so people buy more fuel to burn.
Ethanol gas tailpipe emissions pollute groundwater more than just pure 100% gas byproducts.
Its not great for engines, being alcohol causing them to run hotter. It can also be hard on plastics in the fuel system.
Especially hard on small two-stroke engines that can destroy them.
Exactly right! Who didn’t see this coming?
They’ve known about this for years. It’s a waste of corn.
I blame Iowa.
Burn food, good thinking.
Prove that petroleum is not renewable. Prove it.
that and High Fructose Corn syrup. Both are real killers.
Only a fool puts corn oil (or whatever that crap is) into a combustible engine. .?????
It isn’t OIL, it is Alcohol. It is used as the oxygenate, replacing MTBEs
In large metro areas that is not always practical/possible.
It’s worse than that. Literally burning the food. How is that good?
As Bill Wattenburg used to say, it’s just sawdust in the hamburger.
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