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  • Ethanol Will Become a Fad Without Government Intervention
    Two other positives for ethanol --

    1) Purchases of ethanol are an investment in additional infrastructure in America. For the most part when we buy gasoline, the money goes outside the country while the product goes up in smoke.

    2) Ethanol can make a big difference when combined with other technology. Picture this -- something like a plug-in, Flex-fuel, Prius (that gets 50 mpg), but uses electricity for short trips and 85% ethanol (only 15% gasoline) for longer trips.
    May 07 10:16 am |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article
  • Ethanol Will Become a Fad Without Government Intervention
    Ethanol is one of a few key options the US has for dealing with the transportation fuel crisis. Production from corn is key to getting the industry infrastructure in started. From there we will move on to cellulosic ethanol. "Big Oil" hates ethanol. They don't make it even though the world is running out of oil. Even worse is the concern about what it does to their pricing paradigm. E85 sells for less than regular gas and is 105 octane. I think one of the big fears of "Big Oil" is premium grade gasoline customers catching on to this -- i.e., filling up with regular, and then putting a couple gallons of E85 to bring the whole tank of gas up to premium grade.
    May 06 11:59 am |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article

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