tailieunhanh - Biofuels, Solar and Wind as Renewable Energy Systems_Benefits and Risks Episode 1 Part 4

Tham khảo tài liệu 'biofuels, solar and wind as renewable energy systems_benefits and risks episode 1 part 4', kỹ thuật - công nghệ, cơ khí - chế tạo máy phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | 3 A Review of the Economic Rewards and Risks of Ethanol Production 59 agri-businesses as production of ethanol and byproducts increase. The last section discusses the near and longer term growth prospects for rural areas in the Midwest and the nation as they relate to biofuels production. Measuring and Mismeasuring Biofuels Economic Impacts It is important to sort out the rhetoric of claimed economic benefits to be expected from biofuels development in the Midwest and the nation because there are tremendous amounts of public money at stake. In the very early stages of this modern boom in ethanol plant construction politicians farm commodity groups and economic developers hailed the emerging industry as the right and proper evolution of modern agricultural production capacities coupled inexorably with technological breakthroughs and long overdue changes in the nation s energy policies. Amidst this enthusiasm biofuels trade associations and some agricultural commodity groups reported in various venues that scores of thousands of jobs have been created across the Corn Belt and the nation. Some politicians and government agency representatives parroted those reports uncritically Midwestern state governments began to specifically and energetically apply government agency services in support of the boom along with offering lucrative tax credits and incentives to promote even faster growth land-grant universities promoted their vital scientific contributions in this coming energy revolution cities and counties scrambled to be the site of a modern ethanol factory to be on the plus side of economic trends for a change given the historical deterioration of rural Midwestern economies and communities and some leaders in Midwestern states began to envision a social and economic resurgence in rural areas. Profound expectations like the aforementioned demand careful scrutiny especially when massive amounts of national state and local government subsidy are at stake. The place