Looking the other day at the octane of gas at the station, and the higher the octane, the lower amount of ethanol is in it. Has to tell you something about the quality of ethanol.
Let’s hear it for “rage” and snow. ;-) Seriously, more energy produced in US and not imported from troubled areas is a good thing. Nevertheless, it is harder to get uniformity in a multi focus industrial environment than in a state run operation. On the other hand multi focus leads to more creativity and competition. If industry could get something like thread screw size right (see my Comment 229) then many other solutions are also possible with cross industry cooperation on the essentials. How about a National Electric Power Utilization Commission or something like that?