There are plenty of reasons to be skeptical about the expenditure of billions of taxpayer dollars to subsidize production of ethanol in the U.S. Now there’s one more. A swiss study, summarized and analyzed in the journal Science by the Smithsonian’s William Laurance, finds that ethanol production is frequently more environmentally damaging than the use of fossil fuels. According to Laurance’s piece (subscription only):
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