Reducing dependence on ME oil plays well in Peoria, but from everything I have read, ethanol is NOT a viable alternative. Fracking should be such an alternative. Takes huge amounts of energy AND water to produce ethanol.”
Most manufacruring takes the same. ETOH is only a fraction of the corn picture. The urban bumpkins can’ t fathom that high protein feed and stalk forage are also produced. Corn, a bamboo relative, is a huge CO2 sink, grows to 12 feet or more in a season, captures sun energy to produce ETOH, high protein feed and cornstalk forage for livestock. The oil industry always leaves out the later parts of the story of corn.
I was in Stillwater, Ok in November and experienced a mild earthquake which occurs almost daily because of the underground caverns left empty from th oil removed.