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On Fri, 26 Apr 2013 09:23:23 -0400, iBoaterer
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Maybe if the right wouldn't be SO afraid of new technology, we could
move forward and make engines that would be just fine on ethanol.

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That would be the wrong direction. Ethanol is not a good fuel for
all the reasons previously mentioned:

1. It is inefficient - takes more net energy to produce than it
yields as an engine fuel.

At the moment, just maybe-sort-of. When gasoline was in it's infancy,
the exact same was true.

http://tinyurl.com/bqubef4




2. Wastes cropland and other agricultural resources.

How does it waste cropland if the cropland is being used instead of the
government paying farmers to let it go fallow?


3. Drives up the federal defecit via farm subsidies.

Again, the government is in the farm business already, in some cases
paying farmers to NOT grow crops.

4. Raises the cost of food and decreases food supplies.

Maybe. Here's a really good read:

http://tinyurl.com/o6ws4e