Ethanol is a massive fraud. Ethanol is nothing more than a massive farm subsidy program.

Thomas Brewton writing at Intelletual Conservative highlights these facts from a Wall Street Journal Editorial

A study last year by Cornell University agricultural scientist David Pimentel shows that it takes so much fossil fuel to create ethanol, that we end up with a net energy loss.

The numbers go like this: It takes 131,000 BTUs to grow and convert enough corn for one gallon of ethanol. A gallon of ethanol, however, has an energy value of just 77,000 BTUs. In other words, it takes about 70% more energy (which comes from fossil fuels, by the way) to produce ethanol than the energy ethanol creates. It’d be easier — and less costly — for consumers to pour most of every gallon of gas they buy down a sinkhole.

Professor Pimentel also looked at the cost of making ethanol. He found that ethanol costs $1.74 a gallon to produce, compared with 95 cents to produce a gallon of gas. That’s why “fossil fuels — not ethanol — are used to produce ethanol,” he says.

These farm subsidies need to go. Its time for these people to grow up and go it on their own.

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