Ethanol is poison for the environment
Esther Wickham - Yesterday 10:10 AM
Ethanol makes global warming worse, according to a recent study by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
This new study contradicts, though, what the U.S. Department of Agriculture has been claiming. This comes at a time when President Joe Biden’s administration is reevaluating biofuel policies in an effort to combat climate change.
The research found that “ethanol is likely at least 24% more carbon-intensive than gasoline."
“Corn ethanol is not a climate-friendly fuel,” said Tyler Lark, an assistant scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment and lead author of the study.
This report runs contrary to the Renewable Fuel Standard, a 2005 federal program that mixed corn-based ethanol into gas pumps with the goal of reducing emissions and energy dependence outside of the United States.
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