During an interview on Comedy Central’s Daily Show with Jon Stewart to promote his newly released book Our Choice, former U.S. Vice President Al Gore corrected the host’s comments on how any ethanol was worse for the environment.
While the corn ethanol lobby when nuts and reverted the old Washington game of attack, attack, attack, the truth is Al Gore pointed out that there are new and improved forms of ethanol that the U.S. could be using as part of the country’s efforts to fight climate change. (To see and hear Gore’s comments, click here and scroll video to 15:04 time.)
And this is not the first time that Gore defends advanced biofuels as a part of a solution for global warming. For instance, Gore talked up sugarcane ethanol early this year at the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee and just last month again sugarcane ethanol, when he stated that cane cultivation in Brazil is highly efficient both economically and in terms of its energy balance, and can contribute to be produced without deforestation.
Filed under: Biofuels, Climate Change, Deforestation, Enviroment, Ethanol, Food vs. Fuel, Sugarcane | Tagged: Ethanol, RFA, Biofuels, environment, Gore, Our Choice, Daily Show, Jon Stewart
