Argument: Corn ethanol production is becoming more efficient relative to gasoline

Support

• John Biondi. “Anti-ethanol arguments are easily debunked”. Wisconsin Technology Network. August 1st, 2006 – “ethanol production has become consistently more efficient year after year over the last 10 years. Gasoline production, although historically highly efficient, has become less efficient across that same timeframe because the easy places to drill for oil are all gone.”

• “Ethanol: Energy well spent”. Natural Resource Defense Council. February 2006 – “The technology for corn ethanol production can be considered mature as of the late 1980s. However, manufacturers continue to make improvements in process efficiency and farmers have reduced the amount of fertilizer required per bushel of corn produced. Taken together, these advancements will gradually decrease the amount of gross energy input to the corn ethanol manufacturing process over time.”