A Pending Bust For Corn Ethanol?

[Regis Philbin]

http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/content/may2007/db20070508_850283.htm?chan=top+news_top+news+index_businessw eek+exclusives

[Regis Philbin]

http://www.forbesautos.com/news/headlines/2007/may/ap050707-ethanol-impact.html

[Richard Tafoya]

Well, corn-based ethanol is an inferior fuel to just about every other form of ethanol, and its prevalence is merely the product of government intervention on the part of the powerful corn farm lobby.

To repeat from my previous post:
Grain-based ethanol is a very partial stepping stone in getting to cleaner fuel. It's actually only part of the world dialogue because U.S. corn farmers have forced it to be, since they want to plant that corn and collect those subsidies.

But the reality is that corn ethanol is a fraction as clean as cellulosic ethanol, less efficient in the engine and much more expensive to produce. Cellulosic ethanol, on the other hand, is produced from agricultural waste, is more efficient in engines and is much cleaner than corn-based ethanol.