So I listen all the time and now and then I
hear this blurb you guys recite about ethanol and every time it gets me
just a little steamed. The one where at the end it says something
like,"Every gallon of clean burning ethanol displaces a gallon of fossil
fuels." It gets me wound up because technically that's not true. I
mean yeah, it burns clean, but saying it displaces the use of fossil
fuel isn't accurate because it's not taking into consideration the
amount of fossil fuels that are required to create ethanol in the first
place. It takes fossil fuel to plant the corn, to water it, to add
herbicide, insecticide, fertilizer, to harvest it, ship it to where it's
made into ethanol, it takes fossil fuel to make it into ethanol, then
to ship the ethanol to the gas stations and wherever else it is
utilized. Not to mention the degradation of the land where the corn
used to make the fuel is grown. Land which could be used for more cost
and energy effective plants like switchgrass and hemp.
What
upsets me is that every time I hear that repeated on the radio it
reminds me that even those of us who seem to be more enlightened, maybe
aren't. And it really bums me out that at least once a day I hear an
almost straight up lie repeated and spread on a mass level. I
understand that that company is one of your sponsors, but still, it's a
bummer that you guys read that specific message on air.
Just thought I'd share.
Thanks for all the music!
