Six gallons of water = one gallon of ethanol from corn: You do the math.
Biofuels Production Depletes Scarce Water
Submitted by Steve Kelly on 22 February 2007 - 10:20am. Six gallons of water = one gallon of ethanol from corn: You do the math.Biofuel craze is water madness
AndyMukherjeeCOMMENTARY
Friday, February 09, 2007
If water were a globally traded commodity, with unmet demand in China and India reflected in its price, the world might shed its newfound craze for biofuels.
It is bad enough that some of us need ethanol distilled in Scotland to lubricate our evenings. Growing corn to make ethanol to run sport-utility vehicles is downright silly; nowhere more so than in China and India.
