Speaking of math not adding up; Obama on this one:
From :
http://www.grist.org/feature/2007/07...ama_factsheet/
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# Calls for 36 billion gallons of biofuels to be used in the U.S. each year by 2022 and 60 billion gallons of biofuels to be used in the U.S. each year by 2030.
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In 2005, the U.S. consumed 4 billion gallons of ethanol, and 140 billion of oil.
We also produced about 11 billion bushels of corn that year.
Calculators anyone?
We don't make enough corn, in fact it would take about 36% of the U.S. land mass to make enough corn at current bushel per acre yields (okay, it can get better with more chemicals and such, but isn't it supposed to be green?).
The entire corn yield of these the United States (11 billion bushels) would yield a bumper crop of exactly 24.5 billion gallons of ethanol. Hope you southern democrats aren't too hooked on corn bread.
No more corn chips, corn dogs etc...
Oh, and ethanol is only 10-15% better than using fossil fuels in the production of greenhouse gas.
Maybe I should double post this to the GW thread.