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Ethanol: Not The Energy Transition We're Looking For

Ethanol: Not The Energy Transition We're Looking For Authored by Ike Kiefer via RealClear Energy, With current events stirring up global energy prices, corn ethanol is again being dressed up as if it is a domestic energy source and agent of energy security. The truth is that corn ethanol is an energy sump, and that it takes more fossil fuel energy to make a gallon of corn ethanol than a gallon of gasoline. It is time to face this unpleasant truth and the other perverse outcomes achieved by twenty years of...
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