{"id":177,"date":"2007-04-19T17:09:24","date_gmt":"2007-04-19T17:09:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/?p=177"},"modified":"2007-04-19T17:09:24","modified_gmt":"2007-04-19T17:09:24","slug":"anotherproblemwithethanol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/anotherproblemwithethanol\/","title":{"rendered":"Another problem with Ethanol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve never been a big fan of ethanol-fueled cars because our system of growing commodity corn, the source of all ethanol, is so drenched in petroleum-based fertilizers and herbicides that I don&#8217;t think it actually changes our dependence on oil.  As it turns out, there are other reasons to not immediately embrace ethanol, it makes our air less clean.  According to a recent study out of Stanford, the air pollution effects of ethanol vs. gasoline emissions are actually worse and would cause more smog-related illnesses and deaths.  There&#8217;s more on this &#8220;here&#8221;:<a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20070418\/ap_on_he_me\/ethanol_health_risks;_ylt=AlksYcHSz0fQmP.hn.zzG7Ws0NUE\">http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20070418\/ap_on_he_me\/ethanol_health_risks;_ylt=AlksYcHSz0fQmP.hn.zzG7Ws0NUE<\/a> or you can just read the report (&#8220;PDF&#8221;:<a href=\"http:\/\/us.rd.yahoo.com\/dailynews\/ap\/ap_on_he_me\/storytext\/ethanol_health_risks\/22684790\/SIG=121piiffo\/*http:\/\/www.stanford.edu\/group\/efmh\/jacobson\/E85PaperEST0207.pdf).\">http:\/\/us.rd.yahoo.com\/dailynews\/ap\/ap_on_he_me\/storytext\/ethanol_health_risks\/22684790\/SIG=121piiffo\/*http:\/\/www.stanford.edu\/group\/efmh\/jacobson\/E85PaperEST0207.pdf).<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve never been a big fan of ethanol-fueled cars because our system of growing commodity corn, the source of all ethanol, is so drenched in petroleum-based fertilizers and herbicides that I don&#8217;t think it actually changes our dependence on oil. As it turns out, there are other reasons to not immediately embrace ethanol, it makes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1],"tags":[42,128],"class_list":["post-177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-original-duenos","category-uncategorized","tag-automobile","tag-environment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}