Milk is costing my family almost twice what gas costs us.  With growing boys, it takes almost as many gallons to get us through the week.   I heard that one of the reasons is because the corn to feed the cows is being used instead for ethanol production.  But the new “green” fuel could be doing more harm than just that to my pocketbook.

Ethanol seems like a great solution to fuel needs.  After all, it can be grown in what ever amounts needed.  But many people forget that it takes fossil fuels to generate the ethanol.  This means that while the product itself is a carbon neutral fuel, its production is not.

There is also concern that existing forests will be cut in order to grow the corn needed for the production of ethanol.  It is the destruction of these forests that is the leading cause of green house gases.  The cost of moving to a regenerative fuel is just too much if this is the path we are going to go down.

Scientists have not quit searching for better fuels.  We shouldn’t be focused on something with all the potential problems that ethanol has when the real answer could be right under our noses.