{"id":2776,"date":"2007-01-27T06:49:33","date_gmt":"2007-01-27T06:49:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=2776"},"modified":"2007-01-27T06:49:33","modified_gmt":"2007-01-27T06:49:33","slug":"ethanol_very_ve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=2776","title":{"rendered":"Ethanol: Very, Very Big Corn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.opinionjournal.com\/weekend\/hottopic\/?id=110009587&amp;mod=RSS_Opinion_Journal&amp;ojrss=frontpage\">Opinion Journal<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>President Bush made a big push for alternative fuels in his State of the Union speech Tuesday night, calling on Americans to reduce gasoline consumption by 20% over 10 years. And as soon as the sun rose on Wednesday, he set out to tour a DuPont facility in Delaware to tout the virtues of &#8220;cellulosic ethanol&#8221; and propose $2 billion in loans to promote the stuff. For a man who famously hasn&#8217;t taken a drink for 20 years, that&#8217;s a considerable intake of alcohol.<br \/>\nA bit of sobriety would go a long way in discussing this moonshine of the energy world, however. Cellulosic ethanol&#8211;which is derived from plants like switchgrass&#8211;will require a big technological breakthrough to have any impact on the fuel supply. That leaves corn- and sugar-based ethanol, which have been around long enough to understand their significant limitations. What we have here is a classic political stampede rooted more in hope and self-interest than science or logic.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opinion Journal: President Bush made a big push for alternative fuels in his State of the Union speech Tuesday night, calling on Americans to reduce gasoline consumption by 20% over 10 years. And as soon as the sun rose on Wednesday, he set out to tour a DuPont facility in Delaware to tout the virtues [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,10,9,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2776"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2776\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}