From this morning’s (July 19) New York Times “Green: A Blog about Energy and the Environment”: “Now, two professors at the University of Nebraska counter that gasoline is an even bigger source of heat-trapping gases than previously believed. While most attention focuses on the obvious sources of gasoline-related emissions — drilling wells, transporting oil, refining it into gasoline and finally burning it in a car engine — they argue that the military activity that goes into protecting and acquiring oil imports from the Middle East takes an emissions toll that doesn’t get factored into comparisons of gasoline and ethanol.”
This writer certainly could have chosen any form of cleaner-than-fossil fuel energy to highlight the dangers of our dependence on foreign oil – this time it was ethanol. Read the entire article here.
