"George Patterson" wrote in message
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sfb wrote:

Ethanol is the ultimate political boondoggle as it costs more BTUs to
manufacture than it provides.

But you don't have to use petroleum to provide those BTUs; consequently,
it does reduce dependence on foreign oil, and it does pollute less than
petrol.



The problem is if you use a gallon of Ethanol to produce 0.99 gallons of
Ethanol all of the fuel produced will go into production and you are going
to have to add .01 petro just to break even.