"George Z. Bush" wrote in message
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"D. Strang" wrote in message
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"George Z. Bush" wrote

Our ethanol experience suggests much wishful thinking on your part,
unfortunately for us all.

Ethanol is a welfare program. It has nothing to do with future energy.

You don't know what you're talking about. When you pour a gallon of it
into
your gas tank, that's one less gallon of gasoline that you're going to
need,
because it's supposed to burn just about as good as gasoline does. That
has to
do with reducing gasoline consumption, the way I see it. Unfortunately,
for
some reason, it never caught on with consumers.

Not really one less gallon because you have to factor in how much total
energy it took to make a gallon of ethanol. I'm guessing it takes a lot more
energy to produce than it's worth.