Comments: Corn ethanol is worsening the Gulf dead zone

My god we try to find a solution to help our oil dependency and it backfires. I say back to the drawing but with passion and ethic. We know we can do this thats why we are procrastinating as a country.
Waiting for our teacher to tell US to solve this problem. Its just it may be too late by then.

timothy Palla

It's amazing how they say that the government is suppose to help us through these problems, when it seems that everytime they do we end up in more trouble then before. There is a good and bad to everything, but some bad things you can't let go on for too long. This will be our down fall if we don't fix it now and stop cutting down trees which provide us with so much. We need the food and oxygen that they provide because without it there would be no us, fix the problem while there is time or there will be nothing when you really need it.

Chelsea Kennedy

Switch grass and other potential cellulose sources of ethanol are not yet a viable source for fuels. These plant sources of cellulose have as yet not been readily converted to ethanol since all processes that convert plant material to fuel require the utilization of certain yeasts to initiate the fermentation of the plant material as the first step in making fuel. So far the search for an efficient yeast to digest cellulose has evaded researchers.

charles king

I for one do not wish to waste any further time in developing a viable fuel for replacement of petroleum. Having spent almost twenty years involved with the O & G industry, I see no future for this country to keep on its current path of destruction. By whatever method we use, we must decide and move forward now. I am currently writing a short paper discussing the use of cellulosic ethanol as the best alternative to the corn based ethanol currently used. This is the only choice I see. I do not wish to pollute further the air we all breathe and combined withthe cost and economic impact of conr based fuels, all I see is further destruction of our economy by the large firms in control. Smaller plants, regionally placed throughout the country, producing biofule from plant life is a viable answer. We just need to commit. Committing to this is just as easy as starting your car and making a town run every day. If we could stop the waste on foreign production and begin putting our money where it belongs, R&D in this instance, we could find a cure for this disease we call greed, and perhaps an answer for all of us to live with. I look for answers as I age and become less dependant on oil and more dependant on my future and my childs future. I live in an agricultural area and see that perhaps some less food and more energy could drive us to develop more reliable food sources and coexist with food and energy. This oculd in turn create less waste and become a more ecologically sound practice. Thought for the day, Just Do What we can, talking about the problem of fixing the issue does not promote a solution.

Drew A. Webster

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