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Besides we can still use that same land for crops with agrivoltaics

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[–] 3abas@lemmy.world 5 points 13 hours ago

lol okay I get being suspicious of oil and gas bs, but some of what you said about ethanol is just not right...

In the US most ethanol is made from corn. It’s usually field corn, not the kind you eat like corn on the cob, but it’s still part of the food system. It turns into animal feed and all the corn ingredients in processed food, so saying “no ethanol comes from food crops” doesn’t really hold up.

Also yeah you could power the distillation with renewables, cool, but that doesn’t magically fix the bigger issues people point to: growing more corn usually means more fertilizer and more runoff and more land pressure. You know how much fertilizer corn takes?

That’s not just “oil talking points,” that’s just what happens when you scale it... i’m not saying ethanol is pure evil or whatever, but dismissing the criticism as all oil propaganda is doing the same thing in reverse. It's certainly not the climate justice solution they've sold it as.