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Originally Posted by BigAls87Z28
Neg, it does none of that.
Ethanol made from corn blows
Ethanol made from switchblade grass and other wasteful weeds yeild much higher volumes of ethanol, with half the energy.
Problem is people like yourself equate ethanol = corn, so commodity markets capitalize off the ignorance and rase prices.
Ethanol made from the multitude of non-corn is much better and a hell of a lot easier to manufacture then corn based.
Better then going to the beach and seeing 3 oil rigs on the horizion.
Third world nations do it, but America sits back and does nothing.
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Ethanol certainly does increase prices at the dinner table and fails to deliver on any of it's promises Al.
Most of the Ethanol used for fuel in the world is made from corn because of convenience. We have a lot more farmers that are set up and ready to produce fuel yield corn than cultivating slower growing grass products. These farmers are ready made because so much of the food and industry in this country is corn based. Now you convert a farm from food and byproduct production to fuel grass or non food corns and watch the price of dinner sky rocket.
Ethanol is also a failure at the pump because it is financially damaging to the consumer. Like it or not, ethanol comes with an increase in consumption without any sort of reduction in cost. People bitch and moan about being an oil based society, then why would it be logical to cause a consumption increase with the 10-15% mixes required by law?
Ethanol is a complete waste of time. Wasting billions of dollars to push a lower thermal yield energy source on America doesn't help anyone outside of the ethanol lobby.
If the US, or any other government, was interested in honest reductions in consumption of fuel and cleaner tail pipe emissions, the push would be for modern diesel technology, propane, and making whole cars aimed at fuel efficiency instead of just telling the car companies to improve mileage and emissions while hamstringing them with rules that make cars heavier and less efficient all based on 20+ year old outdated technologies and ideas