The issue is national security. A self sufficient USA needs X gallons of liquid fuel per year produced within our borders by us. Until we have that we are vulnerable to the hatred of nations that have us over a “barrel”.
There is no problem with ethanol that cannot be solved and most already are.
Regarding your national security argument. If we converted all the farm land in the USA to produce only corn to only be used as an ethanol feedstock, not enough would be produced to make the USA energy independent.
And after we had converted all of our USA farm land to produce corn, we then would have to buy all of our other farm products from foreign countries at high prices because the USA had stopped producing wheat, oats, cattle, etc.
No we must be prudent about making high cost alternative fuels. Otherwise, we can bankrupt the country just to prove a point that we can be energy independent.
No problem except all the ones that have been mentioned on this thread. Cruz is right here.
“The issue is national security. A self sufficient USA needs X gallons of liquid fuel per year produced within our borders by us. Until we have that we are vulnerable to the hatred of nations that have us over a “barrelâ€.
There is no problem with ethanol that cannot be solved and most already are.”
that is ridiculous. If you were really interested in national security, then you should be lobbying against the demonization of coal and nuclear. Those are far, far better than ethanol, and a lot, lot cheaper for energy security, and are plentiful for us in this country.
Ethanol jus rewards bad business practices in a non-commercial enterprise.