Vehicles using ethanol are actually causing much more damage to the environment than gas powered vehicles.
Thousands of acres of forest land are being destroyed in order to plant corn for the ethanol.
Just great!
LOL! Unless you are talking about a country other than the U.S., I'd love to know what on earth you are reading. Ethanol producers use only a small fraction of the corn produced in this country. The plants are located in the middle of the "corn belt;" glaciers took care of any forestation problem well before ethanol plants came around.
I'm thrilled that a convenience store just 2 blocks from my house just added an E85 pump! I drive an '04 Explorer that is an FFV; hadn't been able to use ethanol (other than 10%) prior to last week.
Ethanol really could be the ultimate "green" fuel, if the naysayers would get off of the 20-year-old myths that they constantly push.
Farmer fertilizes with manure (rather than fossil fuel-based nitrogen). Farmer uses biodiesel in tractors, and sun energy to grow the crop.
Farmer then sells corn to ethanol plants, which have now become so efficient that they take only the needed elements from the corn, while preserving most of the product for use in livestock feed.
Cows eat the feed and poop...cycle starts over again.
As an added bonus, we get to defund the terrorist-supporting Middle Eastern cabal. What's not to like?
Before anyone starts with the "mileage" crap. Ethanol needs to be $.30/gallon less than unleaded to equalize. I paid $1.59 today. In any event, we would probably SAVE money at the same price if we could quit sending bribe money to the OPEC nations; not to mention the jobs and security that come from energy independence.