Minnesota is paying to expand ethanol infrastructure. Some experts say that’s a mistake (www.mprnews.org)

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“Ultimately, we want to use less fuel, not more, and so we should be looking at increasing vehicle efficiency more,” he said. “We should be looking at public transportation options.”

The article doesn't get into it much, but an acre of solar panels provides a lot more vehicle-miles than an acre of corn turned into ethanol.

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[-] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 8 points 1 month ago

Eat the food you grow and build solar panels, corn ethanol is incredibly foolish of a future to bank on.

[-] nocturne@slrpnk.net 6 points 1 month ago

Ethanol is less fuel efficient, and it does not even cost less at the pump.

[-] Ascrod@midwest.social 5 points 1 month ago

Ethanol is a shitty fuel. Build more infra for solar energy and electric/hybrid vehicles.

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