UH-OH, secret document leaked: Ethanol gets about 7% less mpg than gas; 10% BETTER on energy equiv

[hunter]

4. So?

Converting corn to fuel ethanol damages the environment in many ways.

Nothing good comes from this kind of corn growing -- not factory farmed meat, not high fructose corn syrup, not ethanol fuel.

We've let other industries die, some that actually improved life in the U.S.A. with well paying U.S. jobs and some of the highest quality products in the world. Gone, so many of them replaced with lower quality, short-lived goods made in low-wage nations where workers suffer unspeakable abuses.

Growing mutant monster corn ought to be on a list of industries that need to die, right up there with mountaintop removal coal mining, uranium mining, and much of our corrupt-beyond-redemption "defense" industry.

You know what I'd like to see instead of ethanol? How about hemp clothing grown and made by union workers in the U.S.A.... How about electric cars powered by solar panels, all made in the USA by union workers... How about banning inhumane factory farms and raising our livestock in open places? How about we turn some of our corn fields back into wild prairie, with bison, wolves roaming free...