"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
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The other issue that ETOH enthusiasts seem to never see is that it
takes more petroleum BTU's to produce a gallon of ethanol than you
get back when when you burn the ethanol in an engine... So it is a
lose-lose situation...

That's what is SO frustrating. Right now our Iowa Legislature is
considering mandating ethanol in all gas. It is SO dumb, yet --
especially here in corn country -- it holds an almost unstoppable
attraction for many.

I thought the idea behind ethanol was not to make more fuel, but to be a
replacement for MTBE to reduce pollution. I seem to remember reading that
it wasn't very effective in that regard, as compared to "normal" gas, but
was done as "pork" to the corn producing states.