…”[ethanol] is clearly not sustainable,” says Jerald Schnoor, a professor of engineering at the University of Iowa and co-chairman of an October 2007 National Research Council study for Congress that was critical of ethanol. “Production will have serious impacts in water-stressed regions.”
I’ve been talking about the stress that the liquid pork ethanol subsidies were imposing on water — here are some reports from the war zone…
“Trying to solve problems by using the same old techniques doesn’t solve the problem,” Adamson says. “We’re going to make the area a desert. It’s going to be uninhabitable.” And that would be a high price to pay.
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