There is a plethora of ignorance regarding ethanol - an 99% of the crap that gets posted wouldn't if the people posting it would bother to educate themselves a bit before spouting off.
Thank you! That saves me from having to type the same stuff every day all day to try to educate these morons. If you do a search on chuckles and ethanol on FR, I have practically written a book debunking all the tripe spewed here. They have no clue yet argue till the bandwidth is used up about stuff they make up as they go along.
I have studied this subject since the '73 embargo and Carter. I have made my own ethanol for 25 cents a gallon. I have ran straight ethanol in my own engine I built and it didn't destroy even so much as a gasket. Yet night after night I listen to the same crap about how we can't grow enough corn or it cost too much or your engine will be damaged, blah, blah, blah. So I write back "make it with coal, that we have 250 years worth of coal, and Hitler made his fuel with coal 60 years ago, and they write back and say I must work for ADM or what does coal have to do with corn? They are retarded. I think the oil companies have given them subliminal messages so long they are brain damaged.
I love oil, I own COP stock, I own EOG drillers stock, I have owned and will continue to buy and sell oil stock. I am not anti oil. I wish we would drill in ANWAR. I cut trees, not hug them. But I also love my country and love to drive. I'm not willing to give up the American lifestyle and bow to Mecca to get my tank full. I would be in favor of any alternative fuel that gets the job done. I just see ethanol as the ONLY practical answer that doesn't use pie in the sky tech 15 years out. We can do it now if we set our minds to it.