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To: Brian Allen

Delivering ethanol is a problem, also. It scavenges water, so if there's any water in a pipeline, the ethanol isn't any good. So no companies use pipelines to deliver ethanol. All ethanol has to be delivered in tanker trucks or railroad tankers. That type of delivery is expensive.


32 posted on 04/27/2006 12:42:31 PM PDT by chemicalman (Many have skeletons in their closets. In New Orleans, we have skeletons in our attics.)
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To: chemicalman
Right you are. Which is also why MTBE is such a problem in the environment -- it is preferentially miscible in water so that MTBE in gasoline from a service station fuel leak will move into groundwater much as your favorite bourbon disperses in water in your before-dinner drink.
37 posted on 04/27/2006 12:56:30 PM PDT by CedarDave (DemocRATs- the CULTURE OF TREASON! If it wasn't for double standards, democrats would have NONE)
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