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ith 7.5 billion gallons of ethanol (5.75% of annual U.S fuel consumption) going into supply by 2012 (Moreira, 2005) many people can’t help but wonder why Congress has decided to use that particular fuel. Global warming is slowly chipping away at our ozone layer, which protects us from harmful U.V. rays which the sun sends us. Global warming is caused by our carbon output (our Green House Gas, or GHG emissions), and carbon comes out the tail pipes of our cars, our buses, our planes, and every single appliance which runs on energy generated by burning fossil fuels. That’s a fairly complicated domino effect! Basically, every time we burn oil and its byproducts (gasoline, kerosene, etc.), it brings us closer to our demise.
