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  • Bio-temperance in high places

    by Jeremy on April 19, 2007

    After The Economist, here comes mighty Foreign Affairs with a definite money quote:

    Filling the 25-gallon tank of an SUV with pure ethanol requires over 450 pounds of corn — which contains enough calories to feed one person for a year.

    Here’s the article’s executive summary:

    Thanks to high oil prices and hefty subsidies, corn-based ethanol is now all the rage in the United States. But it takes so much supply to keep ethanol production going that the price of corn — and those of other food staples — is shooting up around the world. To stop this trend, and prevent even more people from going hungry, Washington must conserve more and diversify ethanol’s production inputs.

    I hereby lay claim to bio-temperance as a concept and predict big things for it.

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