Bio-Corn: clean air, dead oceans?

by tjanssen | April 26, 2008 at 07:17 am | 231 views | 1 comment

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It would be a poor trade off if we killed the seas to fuel our cars.

corn based ethanol production is directly linked to the Gulf of Mexico dead zone. If farmers produced enough corn to meet the congressional goal of producing 15 billion gallons of ethanol by 2022, nitrogen runoff into the Gulf would increase by 10% to 19%, further expanding the Gulf's dead zone

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eastvanray

at 17:05 on April 26th, 2008

good stuff:

tjanssen, I like this story. It's good stuff.

Just another reason to put a stop to this crazy rush toward corn-based ethanol production. The producers (farmers) are getting rich and the rest of us are paying the price.