These gas prices are having a ripple effect on food prices as well, due to our increasing reliance on ethanol. Once seen as a way to combat the "inconvenient truth" of global warming, a recent study in Science magazine concluded that greenhouse-gas emissions from corn and even cellulosic ethanol (whatever that is) "exceed or match those from fossil fuels and therefore produce no greenhouse benefits."
We wrote the above without knowing where the candidates stand. Read the next posting to see where they do.
original article: Siphoning Off Corn to Fuel Our Cars
