Gulf Dead Zone Grows With Ethanol Demand
Gulf Dead Zone Grows With Ethanol Demand By Roddy ScheerMSNBC, January 2, 2008Scientists believe that an oxygen-depleted “dead zone” in the Gulf of Mexico is growing rapidly as a result of Americans’ increasing appetite for ethanol, a carbon-neutral biofuel derived from corn that can be used as a gasoline additive or as E85, a gasoline [...]