Ethanol contains water that distillation cannot remove.
I dunno 'bout that!.........
I’ve been saying this about the ethanol scam for years, and getting roundly criticized by the alcoholics here on fr for saying it.
Ethanol contains water that distillation cannot remove.
I dunno 'bout that!.........
EFB Ethanol Fraud Bump
Let’s burn food product!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
From first-hand experience, ethanol burns at roughly twice the rate of gasoline, and weighs considerably more per gallon.
In other words, putting ethanol in your car is considerably less economical, both because of the sheer inefficiency of burning ethanol and because of the added weight to your car bringing fuel mileage down even further.
Somehow, the process of burning our food for fuel demonstrates the sorry state our society has come to.
Here is the answer explained better than I have ever seen:
http://www.hillsdale.edu/news/imprimis.asp
With due respect to Dr. Williams, no one seriously believes that corn is a good feedstock for ethanol fuel. The focus is now on grasses and waste cellulose. In my opinion even that doesn’t make sense.
Make ethanol from switchgrass instead of corn.
“Test plots of switchgrass at Auburn University have produced up to 15 tons of dry biomass per acre, and five- year yields average 11.5 tons—enough to make 1,150 gallons of ethanol per acre each year.”
http://bioenergy.ornl.gov/papers/misc/switgrs.html
Gasoline for burnin’. Ethanol for sippin’.
There are other taxes: 1. Higher food prices 2. Lower gas mileage 3. Ethanol blends may have a deteriorating effect on the rubber components of an engine. It is time we conclude that we have been taken for a ride with this bogus fuel. The only way to go is Algae derived diesel. Where is my popcorn?
Don’t know which is the biggest scam. Human caused global warming or ethanol. They both will kill our economy.
Anyways, I want a food stamp card for beer! The gooberment is putting me into a beer poverty state and I want help!
Beer drinkers unite!
We are in the Ethanol Recession.
Ethanol is driving up the cost of everything, particularly food and fuel, and squandering our natural resources.
Ethanol is but one more example of what happens when Government gets involved in most anything. Counting only the main subsidies, not including many state subsidies, ethanol gets at least a 7 billion dollar subsidy every year. That is 5 or more Fischer-Tropsch plants we could have been building every year.
We have 40 times more energy potential in coal than oil in this country and we have single states that have more potential in coal than the Saudis have in oil. We can rid ourselves of all the turmoil and insanity in the Middle East and become energy independent in a short time frame just by using FT. Scientists at Rutgers and UNC have made significant improvements on the process and produce a fuel that burns cleaner than gasoline as well as getting a yield from most of the coal.
Shut ethanol subsidies down and let’s address this situation realistically and make choices that will meet our energy needs and get us headed towards energy independence. In the interim all the alternative fuels can be discovered or perfected. Let’s put corn back on the table and into peoples bellies, where it belongs. Don’t fall for the switchgrass option either. It has to be grown somewhere, the material has to be harvested and transported by someone to a processing plant somewhere. A lot of energy expended for gains that are low yield.
Trash-based ethanolEthanol may ultimately prove to be the lesser evil where the only alternative is expensive foreign oil.
Made you feeeeeeeeeel real good and could do wonders! Better than Hadacol -- Ethanol makes your car feeeeeeeel good too! (You are driving a three-door Liberal, aren't you?)
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