Ethanol is killing sea life
Ethanol use is increasing in an attempt to help the environment, not hurt it, but in the usual way of things it's not that easy. The increased demand for ethanol means an increased demand for corn, which means an increase in nitrogen fertilizers used by farmers to grow it, which in turn means more and more excess fertilizer washing down to the Gulf of Mexico, which is then resulting in large oxygen-sucking algae blooms and dying sea life. 6 degrees of separation in one of its most vicious forms. And particularly scary about this whole scenario is that this is not new news -- the term "Gulf Deadzone" was coined way back in 1985. Great, good work people. Way to get on that.
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