It takes 9 to 10 gallons of water to make one gallon of beer*. This is a well known industry fact that is not widely publicized. That is just in the manufacturing process. This article talks about the water needed for the growing process, etc. Question is how much water is needed to manufacture ethanol.
* This includes water needed to clean vats, etc.
Ethanol mandates for gasoline are now a third rail subject. No politician from either side of the isle is going to touch them for fear of retribution from the Corn Growers associations.
approximately 40% will be processed into ethanol to meet subsidized mandates in Americans’ fuel blends.
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I suggest:
Put two nozzles at the ‘gas station’.
One with gasoline and
The other with ethanol.
I’ll bet the users pump some ethanol, take it home for consumption, and do not drive much more at all, thus decreasing ‘gasoline pollution’.
Uncle Earl was quite proficient in producing ethanol.
bkmk
**Corn and soy require chemical applications that erode soils and contribute to water pollution.**
While I am not a fan of using chemicals on cropland, the fact that herbicides have greatly reduced tillage practices (thereby leaving crop residue on the surface to help prevent erosion), soil erosion is much less than, say, 30 years ago and before.
Hogs raised in confinement buildings may seem unethical to some folk, but if one goes to vintage aerial photo sites, and look at midwest farmsteads of the 1960s, one can see the dirt (or mud) hog lots were commonplace.
Almonds are killing California rivers.
90 % exported outside the US.