The Minnesota Department of Agriculture is offering grants of almost $5 million to expand access to ethanol blends at gas pumps. But experts say the environmental and economic tradeoffs of ethanol aren’t worth the investment.

“Ultimately, we want to use less fuel, not more, and so we should be looking at increasing vehicle efficiency more,” he said. “We should be looking at public transportation options.”

The article doesn’t get into it much, but an acre of solar panels provides a lot more vehicle-miles than an acre of corn turned into ethanol.

  • tomiant@piefed.socialEnglish
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    4 days ago

    Yeah yeah every single attempt to move away from fossil fuels is a “stupid bad poopyhead idea and here’s three hundred pages of made up statistics and surgically crafted rhetorical devices to dissuade you” bla bla blaaaaaa