[RockyTx]

every gallon of ethanol,
is two-thirds of a gallon of petroleum,
we don’t need to buy from the middle east.

what about that don’t people get.

[RipSawyer]

I can tell you what I don’t get. I have run my own tests over and over and always have gotten approximately eight percent lower mileage on ten percent ethanol compared to pure gasoline. That means you can go nearly the same distance on the nine tenths of a gallon of pure gasoline WITHOUT the one tenth of a gallon of ethanol. To me that means that whatever other factors you quote mean nothing, it still doesn’t make sense to add ethanol to gasoline. What you said about every gallon of ethanol meaning two thirds of a gallon of petroleum we don’t need to buy from the middle East seems to me to be made up out of whole cloth.

[onona]

We have here in the US all the freaking oil and natty gas we'll need for generations, and coal on top of that.

We do NOT need to subsidize crops to make fuel.