Bush and Ethanol (Not What It Seems)

Well, I must say that I may take some heat for this post, but it is going to be packed with some truth. It's about the whole ethanol push. Bush has pushed for this whole-heartedly, along with several politicians and companies like GM. I must say that it looked very nice in the beginning, but I am starting to wonder if it is such a good idea. I will go ahead and say that I am not supporting oil here. We need to use less of it because we are killing the earth that God gave us. With that said, ethanol is a very bad idea.

All the arguments for ethanol are very convincing, very clean and pulls from a very available source. Yes, corn is one of the largest crops grown world wide. So we have cheap clean oil. This is supposed to be the temporary savior of the environment, but I think we need to see how effective it is to making a good earth.

Let's look at the making of ethanol. Although it is quite clean compared to ethanol, it takes a large amount of fossil fuel to make it. So all we are doing is wiping off the bloody wound instead of stopping the bleeding. Maybe if something clean, like ethanol, were used to make ethanol, then it would be fine. Maybe we can wait a little while until that is the fact and we can make clean in a clean fashion. But that is not the case. If you go crazy with ethanol right now, you are going to do absolutely nothing better, if you don't make things worse than they are now.

The other thing is that corn is a food product. Think of how much fuel America consumes in a day. Now take that and match with how much ethanol needs to be made from corn. Thing about how much a cob of corn would cost. Think of that price hike within one year. Think of the taxes that would be put on it because of its new found value. Now I am going to point out the kicker. Think of that tax on the poor of society or of foreign nations. Think of those starving nations who will not be able to eat because corn was the stablizing crop of their land. Now we have the death rate moving from 1 person dieing every second to 10 or even 20 dieing every second.

So, is it worth it? I know that this information is not posted much, and for good reason. Who do you this will sell the ethanol. The same kind of companies who will sell you oil. They already do it in some places. Why give up that money. I don't know if Bush really knows what is happening, but I hope for his sake that he changes his mind. The same goes for the congressmen, republican, democrat, or whatever party. We need to search for something that will be clean yet unharmful to people. The longer we ingore the hungry, the further this will go. The death toll will be undeniable in the end if ethanol is marketed on the mass scale. Let's be careful when we save the earth not to destroy the ones who live in it.