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Hmm...I heard some of the same claims about ethanol that I’m hearing about methane hydrate...it burns cleaner, will solve our energy dependency, etc.

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"I heard some of the same claims about ethanol that I’m hearing about methane hydrate...it burns cleaner, will solve our energy dependency, etc."

Ethanol does burn cleaner than gasoline which is what I assume you are comparing it to.

In terms of CO2 (again people I'm not saying doom were gonna die so relax) ethanol is generally produced from biomass so there is no net increase in CO2 year to year.

In the case of Methane Hydrate, it is carbon that has been sequestered for thousand to millions of years, so really no different from oil in terms of carbon impact.