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Earlier this month, we wrote about the $4 billion spent in 2008 by the U.S. government<\/a> to make just 2% of our gasoline supply ‘”green,” and how the use of corn-based ethanol<\/a> was much more detrimental for the environment than previously thought.<\/p>\n A new report claims that algae-based biofuels<\/a>, for which the U.S. Energy Department recently awarded $44 million, is an even worse environmental culprit, Green Car Advisor<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n The production of algae “consumes more energy, generates more greenhouse-gas emissions and uses more water than other biofuel sources, including corn, switchgrass and canola.”<\/p>\n In the past year, Exxon Mobil Corp. and Dow Chemical Co. made major investments in algae-based biofuels<\/a>.<\/p>\n Read the whole thing here ><\/a><\/p>\n Join the conversation about this story »<\/a><\/p>\n See Also:<\/b><\/p>\n Earlier this month, we wrote about the $4 billion spent in 2008 by the U.S. government to make just 2% of our gasoline supply ‘”green,” and how the use of corn-based ethanol was much more detrimental for the environment than previously thought. A new report claims that algae-based biofuels, for which the U.S. Energy Department […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":813,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/813"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226757\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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