# Ethanol "dirtier" then Oil.

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**Post date:** [March 19, 2008, 12:41pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ethanol-dirtier-then-oil/43091/12 "2008-03-19T12:41:37Z")

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_Bump_

Yay ethanol:  
[http://money.cnn.com/2008/03/19/smbusiness/Chernoff\_pizza/index.htm?postversion=2008031912](http://money.cnn.com/2008/03/19/smbusiness/Chernoff_pizza/index.htm?postversion=2008031912)

> At the Chicago Board of Trade a bushel, 60-pounds of wheat, now trades for more than $1100, more than two-and-1/2 times what it was just a year ago.
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> Why? You can lay part of the blame on ethanol. Huge demand for ethanol has farmers planting more corn to produce the fuel when they could be growing wheat.
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> “Ethanol was competing against wheat for acres in 2007,” said Joe Victor, grain analyst with Allendale Inc.

First time in history humans have taken a food crop and decided to use it for fuel. Looks like it’s working out real well. :picard:

Can we finally admit ethanol, at least from corn, is a huge mistake and should be outlawed?

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