Ethanol use causing corn shortages, spiking price of tortillas
Tortilla prices are going up, causing hardship for the poor in Mexico, apparently because of all the use of ethanol in the U.S.
The U.S. is making lots of ethanol out of corn, to use as an alternative to gasoline — creating a shortage of corn… Continue Reading
Why cellulosic ethanol will not save us?
[Editor's note: This is the next-to-last piece in our series on the Prop. 87 "oil tax." Tad Patzek discusses the problems with biomass, which is one of the alternative energy sources the oil tax would fund with research.]
Today it is commonly believed that burning freshly… Continue Reading