Is Corn Ethanol Cleaner than Crude Oil?

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August 4, 2009, 11:42 AM ET
By Ana Campoy

How green, really, is corn ethanol? It depends how you count.

It’s anything but an academic question—it could determine, in part, how America fuels its cars in the future.

The Environmental Protection Agency dealt a big blow to the ethanol industry earlier this year when it decreed that the corn-based fuel doesn’t have a much better carbon footprint than gasoline made with crude oil.

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