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You don't want to get me started on how much I despise ethanol, lol.

 

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In a message dated 8/28/2007 10:39:01 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, leslie writes:

 

 

As the planet heats up, America’s largest car makers are giving us a lot of hot air about solutions, but taking few real steps to meaningfully reduce carbon emissions.

Ford vehicles were responsible for 25 percent of the carbon emissions from cars in the United States in 2004, and GM vehicles were responsible for 31 percent. Both companies continue to resist a rise in Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards, and both promote ethanol as a viable part of the solution to global warming and energy security. However, ethanol-fueled cars are less fuel-efficient and using current technologies can even produce more global warming emissions than gasoline-fueled cars. The corn that goes into ethanol takes massive amounts of energy, water, and land to produce, and using it for fuel could take away food from the world’s poorest peoples.

Instead of promoting ethanol, automobile manufacturers need to improve the fuel efficiency of their vehicles to 40 mpg by 2012 and 55 mpg by 2020, and increase their production of hybrid and plug-in vehicles. This is the scale of action scientists say is necessary to avoid a climate crisis. Raising fuel efficiency to these standards will also save 3 million barrels of oil a day – more than we import from the Persian Gulf. Any response less than these targets, and any response that takes longer than this timeline, is not adequate and not acceptable.

Both Ford and GM have the capability to mass produce plug-in hybrid cars in the near future. Ford has announced a partnership with Southern California Edison to produce such cars in the next 5-10 years. Chevy unveiled the Chevy Volt concept car, a plug-in, at auto shows this year.

 

More info here

 

http://www.coopamerica.org/pubs/caq/articles/Summer2007cornethanol.cfm

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As

the planet heats up, America’s

largest car makers are giving us a lot of hot air

about solutions, but taking few real steps to meaningfully reduce carbon

emissions.

Ford

vehicles were responsible for 25 percent of the carbon emissions from cars in

the United States

in 2004, and GM vehicles were responsible for 31 percent. Both companies

continue to resist a rise in Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards,

and both promote ethanol as a viable part of the solution to global warming and

energy security. However,

ethanol-fueled cars are less

fuel-efficient and using current technologies can even produce more global

warming emissions than gasoline-fueled cars. The corn

that goes into ethanol takes massive amounts of energy, water,

and land to produce, and using it for fuel could take away food from the

world’s poorest peoples.

Instead

of promoting ethanol, automobile manufacturers need to improve the fuel efficiency of their vehicles to 40 mpg by

2012 and 55 mpg by 2020, and increase their production of hybrid and plug-in

vehicles. This is the scale of action scientists say is

necessary to avoid a climate crisis. Raising fuel efficiency to these

standards will also save 3 million barrels of oil a day – more than we

import from the Persian Gulf. Any response

less than these targets, and any response that takes longer than this timeline,

is not adequate and not acceptable.

Both Ford

and GM have the capability to mass produce plug-in

hybrid cars in the near future. Ford has announced a partnership with

Southern California Edison to produce such cars in the next 5-10 years.

Chevy unveiled the Chevy Volt concept car, a plug-in, at auto shows this

year.

 

More info here

 

http://www.coopamerica.org/pubs/caq/articles/Summer2007cornethanol.cfm

 

 

 

 

 

 

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