Why does anyone think the US is serious about climate change and global warming?
Ethanol requires more energy, and hence contributes more to global warming, to produce a gallon of ethanol than it does to produce a gallon of gasoline.
But it is a great subsidy resource for corn farmers and the Senators who represent them.
The obvious solution to reducing the country’s reliance on fossil fuels is a stiff tax on carbon. Until that happens, there’s no economic viability in alternative energy development. And it’s never going to happen.
So, while it’s lovely that the world’s biggest polluter has decided to acknowledge the climate change problem, it’s a lot tougher to do anything meaningful about it. Americans aren’t into sacrifice of any kind these days.
Gorilla thinks: “The corn is as high as a pie in the sky!”
