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The whole idea of using ethanol as a fuel is flawed. Ethanol has about 34% less energy per volume than gasoline so combining it with gasoline in any proportion results in a mixture with less energy than straight gasoline. Thus gasoline/ethanol blends REDUCE gas mileage. Last year about 40% of the US corn crop was turned into ethanol, yet ethanol provided only a about 10% of US fuel needs so even converting 100% of all the corn grown in the US would not substantially reduce our dependence on oil. Ethanol is a huge boondoggle.


25 posted on 09/04/2011 7:51:00 PM PDT by The Great RJ ("The problem with socialism is that pretty soon you run out of other people's money" M. Thatcher)
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To: The Great RJ

There you go again. If you burn ALCOHOL

In a GASOLINE engine

It doesn’t run very well.

This is a surprise? That’s why I question just about everything in the media and everything else, and half of what I do know.

Just look who’s for and again’st something, and you can usually figure out what’s going on.


29 posted on 09/04/2011 8:02:57 PM PDT by Freedom4US
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