[Oldeconomybuyer]

Daschle and his comrades block enviornmentally friendly oil exploration in Alaska, and favors Ethanol - which appears to produce more enviornmental damage than regular unleaded gasoline. What's a RAT to do?

[ecomcon]

Noise about VOC's and ethanol is EPA makework. Everything can be a pollutant.

[Frankss]

One of the most consistent rules of the physical world is that you don't get something for nothing! Some people have not learned this rule. Example: electric cars, sounds great, ,no pollution right? Wrong, it's just displaced pollution. Somewhere the power is being generated by nukes, coal,hydro,wind,natural gas,ect. Each with it's price

[BOBTHENAILER]

What's a RAT to do

Great post.

[TheBattman]

Yep - good 'ole ethanol - the salvation of all our pollution problems. Let's produce it (at a much higher cost/and with as much or more pollution than gasoline), add it to our gas supply (hard on some engines), and it will clean our air up! yippie....

[spunkets]

"formaldehyde and acetic acid, both carcinogens

Acetic acid is vinegar and definitely not a carcinogen.

BTW, The area around some of these plants has been rendered quite nostalgic, it smells like the adults I knew when growing up. LOL