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Climate Central: Remember how ethanol was going to save us? It was the perfect solution to not one, but two different problems. The first was energy security: since it's a type of alcohol distilled from home-grown corn, ethanol would replace the gasoline made from oil imported from Bad People in places like Iran. The second was climate change. Ethanol emits heat-trapping CO2 like gasoline does, but the corn sucks in CO2 while it's growing, so it's mostly a wash.
That was the sales pitch, anyway, and for a while,......
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Natural Gas Our New Savior? Not So Fast . .
Posted by Climate Central: Mike Lemonick on February 28th, 2012
Posted in Water Conservation