Quote Originally Posted by Joe G View Post
Someone needs to protect the aquifers too. It takes over 80 gallons of fresh water to produce one gallon of ethanol. Several ethanol distilleries in my state have been closed down because they depleted the groundwater supply, and couldn't remain profitable because they had to pay to re-drill thousands of citizen's private wells that went dry.


One was kept out east of Springfield for that very reason. If ethanol wasn't subsidized by the gov't it would dry up and blow away and good riddance.