Corn Ethanol is Killing the Gulf of Mexico


	Corn Ethanol is Killing the Gulf of Mexico

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3-21-2008 8:45 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color:#ffccff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/4e7ee013-3ecc-465b-a2ed-4f578bc70f0e/A0A6F86B-4396-4D40-93BA-46859F9A46B6/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://digits.newsvine.com/_news/2008/03/21/1381240-corn-ethanol-is-killing-the-gulf-of-mexico" href="http://digits.newsvine.com/_news/2008/03/21/1381240-corn-ethanol-is-killing-the-gulf-of-mexico" style="font-size: 11px;">digits.newsvine.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://digits.newsvine.com/_news/2008/03/21/1381240-corn-ethanol-is-killing-the-gulf-of-mexico"><H1 id="articleHeadline">Corn Ethanol is Killing the Gulf of Mexico</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://digits.newsvine.com/_news/2008/03/21/1381240-corn-ethanol-is-killing-the-gulf-of-mexico"><P>Each summer an oxygen-starved, lifeless “dead zone” swells in the Gulf of Mexico from the toxic nitrogen fertilizer that runs off farms in Midwestern corn country. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://digits.newsvine.com/_news/2008/03/21/1381240-corn-ethanol-is-killing-the-gulf-of-mexico"><P>But now that dead zone is expanding -- dangerously. And it’s starting to put the health of a nearly $3 billion fishing industry and an entire ecosystem of aquatic life at risk. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://digits.newsvine.com/_news/2008/03/21/1381240-corn-ethanol-is-killing-the-gulf-of-mexico"><P>Has the nitrogen load from corn kernel production become too much for America's waterways to handle? Looks that way, with the worst yet to come. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://digits.newsvine.com/_news/2008/03/21/1381240-corn-ethanol-is-killing-the-gulf-of-mexico"><P>The US energy bill that was signed by President Bush in December 2007 mandates farmers to produce 36 billion gallons of biofuels by 2022. Corn ethanol is capped at 15 billion of that amount by 2015. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://digits.newsvine.com/_news/2008/03/21/1381240-corn-ethanol-is-killing-the-gulf-of-mexico"><B>That goal is more than three times the nation’s corn ethanol production in 2006.</B></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/A0A6F86B-4396-4D40-93BA-46859F9A46B6/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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