Kansas City Star Platforms Silly Ethanol Pitch

This op/ed was published in last week's paper but it was too dumb to pass up. 

For context . . .  

Not so long ago the Ivy League declared . . . 

"The revisionist effort to increase the percentage of ethanol blended with U.S. gasoline continues to ignore the major environmental impacts of growing corn for fuel and how it inevitably leads to higher prices for this staple food crop. It remains a bad idea whose time has passed. "

Meanwhile . . .

Here's a horrible plan that dead-tree media tacitly endorsed . . .  

"Kansas and Missouri’s representatives need to introduce a bill in Congress simply to ban the sale of new gasoline powered vehicles in the U.S. — and leave existing vehicles alone to carry out their useful lives. If such a bill passed, the car companies would immediately begin offering E100 ethanol-powered vehicles with engines that can’t burn gasoline, in addition to their EV and hydrogen offerings. They all know how to do this using the same engine lines and the same workers used now for gasoline engines.

"E100 is a renewable fuel that contributes no net addition of CO2 to the atmosphere. Furthermore, E100 uses the same distribution infrastructure as gasoline. The farm economies of Kansas and Missouri would prosper as never before, as agricultural waste would become a feedstock for ethanol, in addition to the current use of corn.

"The result: Twenty years after that ban, we would be gasoline free. The ethanol industry would be producing around 100 billion gallons a year for the majority of light duty vehicles with the rest being electric and hydrogen vehicles, and global warming would be a thing of the past."

Read more via www.TonysKansasCity.com link . . .

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