NYT Blogger Hits Ethanol Again
Posted: September 25, 2007
Ladies and gentlemen, start your keyboards.
New York Times “Wheels” blogger Jerry Garrett has taken another swing against ethanol in today’s “Corn Ethanol - Biofuel or Biofraud?” using the recent OECD report as ammunition. But, unlike the tortilla post, comments on this one are running more anti-ethanol, so get your voices heard.
Garrett takes the position that basically the federal government is a) keeping us from buying cheaper and better sugarcane ethanol from Brazil and b) not funding any research into cellulosic ethanol.
He says, “why is America, in particular, insisting on making ethanol from the worst possible choice? It seems that our government’s only true interest in ethanol production lies in placating its agricultural lobby, which in turn is seeking to cash in on forced legislative mandates for domestic ethanol production.”
Grrrrrr!
Jerry Garrett Said,
September 25, 2007 @ 10:57 am
Thank you Cindy for your impassioned defense of the corn industry. I especially enjoy the elegance with which you put people’s words through the spin cycle. I would like to point that the word I used for cellulosic ethanol research was “underfunded”; I did not say “not funding any research into cellulosic ethanol”. Also, I did not say “ethanol” was only good for a 0-3 percent reduction in greenhouse gases; I cited the report’s specific finding about “corn ethanol” only. I would enjoy reading the full Argonne National Laboratory report for the figures you cite on corn ethanol GHG reduction. Could you please provide a link to it?