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The One Climate Policy All 2024 Candidates Support Is Actually Terrible | Ethanol is a comically inefficient form of solar energy—and a toxic one. Solar panels would be better (newrepublic.com)

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[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

Compare this to gasoline. Same engine, right?

For cars older than a decade, is it or is it not marginally better than inefficient and toxic gasoline?

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[–] silence7@slrpnk.net [S] 6 points 2 years ago

There's a fair bit of evidence that the ethanol is worse:

the carbon intensity of corn ethanol produced under the RFS is no less than gasoline and likely at least 24% higher

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