Well duh!
As reported by Yahoo News.
But researchers at Cornell University and the University of California-Berkeley say it takes 29 percent more fossil energy to turn corn into ethanol than the amount of fuel the process produces.
“Ethanol production in the United States does not benefit the nation’s energy security, its agriculture, the economy, or the environment,” according to the study by Cornell’s David Pimentel and Berkeley’s Tad Patzek. They conclude the country would be better off investing in solar, wind and hydrogen energy.
The only thing I can say, is “Well, duh!”
Isn’t this what people have been saying to all the folks in Washington who are on the ADM payroll? ADM gets huge subsidys for ethanol, for every dollor that ADM makes off Ethanol, the US taxpayer pays out $30.