Monday, February 8, 2010
Southland panel rejects funds for ethanol fueling stations
This article talks about how the members of the Southern California Assn. of Government denied an $11 million dollar federal stimulus to set up 55 ethanol gas stations. The council denied the stimulus for various reasons. One of which being that the transportation of corn from the Midwest to Southern California harms the environment. This stimulus could have created 221 jobs and reduced the need for 700 million gallons of petroleum. If this stimulus was approved it could have created a fair amount of jobs and reduced the United States foreign dependency on oil exporting countries.
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Yes building 55 ethanol gas stations would create 221 jobs but that is minor issue of the huge amount of layoffs. The most important part of opening these gas stations is that it "would remove 27,000 tons of greenhouse gases from the air and eliminate the need for 700 million gallons of petroleum." I wonder if the Southland panel calculated how much greenhouse gas would be released by the ethanol delivery trucks and if that the amount released is a minor by product of eliminating 27,000 tons of greenhouse gas. Also why can't the ethanol be shipped via train saving a lot of the greenhouse gases that they are whining about. Also by starting to have people use e85 it will hopefully move their dependence on foreign oil. But then there is the problem of only 500,000 cars that are able to use the e85 blend.
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