This Element is an excerpt from Crossing the Energy Divide (ISBN: 9780137015443) by Robert U. Ayres and Edward H. Ayres. Available in print and digital formats.
Why biofuels won't work--except for gigantic agribusinesses and their lobbyists.
If the entire U.S. corn crop were converted to ethanol, the aggregate reduction in total fossil fuel (gasoline) energy consumption would be just 2.4%. Considering that we still want our corn flakes, pork chops (corn feeds hogs), and cooking oil, any realistic level of crop consumption for fuels would do virtually nothing to end U.S. dependence on foreign oil.
- ISBN10 0132466031
- ISBN13 9780132466035
- Publish Date June 1967
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 10 March 1994
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Pearson Education Limited
- Format eBook
- Pages 180
- Language English