"katy" wrote ...
Vito wrote:
"katy" wrote...
Huh? Thom, I totally believe in switching to veggie based fuel, not
only ethanol but soy-derived diesel. .... The specious argument
that switching won't work because vehicles will lose mileage and
create smog is ridiculous. ....

These arguments are hardly specious or ridiculous, they are factual.

Nitric Oxide does not come from gasoline, it come from air,

So you're saying we don't have the technology to do something about
that? Or is it the cost? ...

I'm saying that there is no such technology. If we switch to methanol in
today's engines mileage will perforce suffer and carbon emissions will be even
worse. If we instead raise compression ratios to efficiently burn ethanol then
mileage won't suffer as much nor will carbon emissions be worse BUT we will have
much more nitric acid in our air. We could even continue to burn gasoline but
use less of it if we accepted more acids. These are the trade offs. Believe
what you like but I know of no magic "scrubbers" that will "eat" the nitric
oxide and we already have catalytic converters so it's simply a question of how
we'd rather have our kids and grandkids die - their lungs eaten by acid or drown
due to global warming. Maybe better that some of them not be born? Huh? Huh?