“Contentious ethanol debate, Toxic beetles, Sleeping seeing fish”. July 31, 2006 – “Ethanol production cannot free us from using oil, even if we converted every grain of corn that we now produce to ethanol. Currently, the U.S. produces 4.5 billion gallons of ethanol per year, which is only 1% of the total U.S. petroleum fuel used per year. It takes 18% of the U.S. corn production to produce this much ethanol. If 100% of the U.S. corn were used, it would replace only 6% of petroleum fuel the U.S. currently uses.”
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