[barb-tex]

I always get a chuckle of wonderment when some green brags that ETOH is “cheaper” than gasoline. When you factor in the mileage loss due to less heat of combustion of 15%(due to the right wing conspiracy), the true cost of ETOH is:
3.59/.85 =$3.74/gallon. Of course not counting the subsidy, which we should all be willing to pay, in order to “save the planet”& ‘punish the Arabs ( this to appeal to the average bitter white person”).
barbra ann

[jjw]

I always get a chuckle of wonderment when some green brags that ETOH is “cheaper” than gasoline. When you factor in the mileage loss due to less heat of combustion of 15%(due to the right wing conspiracy), the true cost of ETOH is: 3.59/.85 =$3.74/gallon. Of course not counting the subsidy, which we should all be willing to pay, in order to “save the planet”& ‘punish the Arabs ( this to appeal to the average bitter white person”). barbra ann

Just curious, next summer, if gasoline is $5.75 a gallon, will your mind change, or will there be another reason to use oil? And better yet, when it is $10 a gallon, will you still have reason?

[barb-tex]

Re:my last post, I used the .85 as that is the number I have read, I feel that this is optimistic, and it is more like .80.
If the fuel was pure ETOH, AND the engine was designed for it, it might be .9. In the old days Indy cars switched to Gasoline, to avoid the fuel stop causing the fiery crash of 1963(?). They then mandated a fuel stop, so the racers switched back to fuel.