Ethanol Mandate for Iowa?

"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
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Today Rep. Jim Nussle -- potentially the future governor of Iowa -- was
reported as proposing that all gasoline sold in Iowa be required to
contain 20% ethanol additive. Presumably, this legislation, if passed,
would make the sale of regular unleaded gasoline illegal in Iowa.



I'm a big Jay Honeck fan.......but, Jay on this one you are wrong, wrong,
wrong!

Please research what Brazil has done since the 70's to become energy
independent.

I personally have a car, truck, motorhome, a motorcycle
for myself and one for my wife and a Cessna 172. I burn a LOT more fuel in
everything else than I do in the airplane (and I put over 100 hours on it in
the last year).

I am not wealthy by a long shot, but if we can have ethanol powered vehicles
for less than $1.00 per gallon, I'll gladly pay 3.00 or 4.00 per gallon for
av fuel. I have an autogas STC and mostly burn unleaded car gas, but for the
good of the country we need to develop alternate
fuels.

Ethanol would also be a boon to the farmers in middle America.

As Ross Richardson (a fellow Sherman Texonite) mentioned, they have, in
Brazil, adapted most everything to run on ethanol (they call it alcohol).

Most of my information was gleaned from a retired AA Capt. who flew the
South America route until '98. His son is flying it now for American, and
stated that as of about 2 weeks ago ethanol (alcohol) was about (converted)
95 cents per gallon in Sao Paulo.

So......my not so valuable opinion is that we should encourage all our
legislators to pass legislation requiring us to be energy independent within
a few years. Ethanol is a large part of that.

I really think that there is a retrofit solution to every gasoline
engine....including aircraft. But even if there was not wouldn't you rather
pay $1.00 per gal for all your other fuel needs??

Just my opinion.......yours is probably different, as evidenced by most of
the elections of the last 20 years G.

Dan