Wrong Wrong and Wrong. Ethanol has nowhere near the energy per gallon of gasoline, and diesel has 30 more energy per unit than gas. People who fill their tanks with 85 ethanol and 15 gas are very unpleasantly surprised to watch their mileage drop in half. So you pay a bit less for ethanol at the pump, and get FAR LESS mpg compared to 100 percent gas.
And the brainiacs in DC Tax you to hand money to subsidize ethanol; more corn goes to fuel production, and your monthly food bill for everything from tortillas to beef goes up. That is your geniuses in DC; Taxing you three ways from Sunday to hand out billions for ethanol subsidies, and when you add in the water it uses, fertilizer etc., ethanol is an epic boondoggle.
Brazil makes ethanol from sugar cane. Much higher energy yield from sugar than from the starches in corn. Ethanol is a typical boondoggle non-solution; a way for the politicos to appear to ‘do something’ while handing out BILLIONS in new corporate welfare and yet not upsetting the apple cart of the oil majors.
I’m curious, does anyone actually read books anymore, or are you all to busy watching America’s next top model idol loser?
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Bill @ Mar 7th 2008 6:09PM
Wrong Wrong and Wrong. Ethanol has nowhere near the energy per gallon of gasoline, and diesel has 30 more energy per unit than gas. People who fill their tanks with 85 ethanol and 15 gas are very unpleasantly surprised to watch their mileage drop in half. So you pay a bit less for ethanol at the pump, and get FAR LESS mpg compared to 100 percent gas.
And the brainiacs in DC Tax you to hand money to subsidize ethanol; more corn goes to fuel production, and your monthly food bill for everything from tortillas to beef goes up. That is your geniuses in DC; Taxing you three ways from Sunday to hand out billions for ethanol subsidies, and when you add in the water it uses, fertilizer etc., ethanol is an epic boondoggle.
Brazil makes ethanol from sugar cane. Much higher energy yield from sugar than from the starches in corn. Ethanol is a typical boondoggle non-solution; a way for the politicos to appear to ‘do something’ while handing out BILLIONS in new corporate welfare and yet not upsetting the apple cart of the oil majors.
I’m curious, does anyone actually read books anymore, or are you all to busy watching America’s next top model idol loser?