The Clean Energy Scam

So I was driving around doing some errands last week and decided to tune in to Rush. He was spouting off about how the biofuel craze was driving up the cost of food and causing famine in some 3rd world countries.

Now of course I take everything Rush says with a bucket of salt. I used to think he was cool in High School, but my political mindset has changed over the years.

Anyway, I came across this article in Time talking about how Clean Energy is some cases actually costs more than then energy required to produce it. For example it has been quoted elsewhere that it takes 1.2 gals of gas to produce 1 gal of Ethanol from corn. If that truly is the case, then we need to rethink how to address the energy crisis. On the other hand, the article says that not all clean energy is bad -- for example it takes less energy to produce ethanol from Sugar as is done heavily in Brazil.

Just something to think about when you are hearing/talking about green/clean energy. We need to make sure that the energy really is green/clean and doesn't just divert attention from the true cost of that energy.

The Clean Energy Scam