Saturday, August 04, 2007

Rolling Stone says Ethanol is a Scam

"The great danger of confronting peak oil and global warming isn't that we will sit on our collective asses and do nothing while civilization collapses, but that we will plunge after "solutions" that will make our problems even worse. Like believing we can replace gasoline with ethanol, the much-hyped biofuel that we make from corn."

More here.

2 comments:

Nancy Reyes said...

of course we can't replace gasoline with ethanol. But the Rolling stone is read by rich yuppies who feel self righteous for driving Prius' in the cities where they could walk.
But in the Philippines, biodiesel for tricycles? Now, that's an idea.

john marzan said...

of course we can't replace gasoline with ethanol. But the Rolling stone is read by rich yuppies who feel self righteous for driving Prius' in the cities where they could walk.
But in the Philippines, biodiesel for tricycles? Now, that's an idea.


so if it came from Rolling STones, it must be BS? But the National REview and Instapundit have been saying the same thing.

And DJB asks if biofuels are the new "snake oil".