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Unfortunately ethanol is a joke used to fool the general population of tree huggers into thinking their governments are being proactive for environmental change. Ethanol use is a short term reactive measure that is totally unsustainable in the long term. The only thing keeping it in our fuel now is subsidies. Comparitively, it costs 95 cents to make a gallon of gasoline, while it costs 1.74 to make a gallon of ethanol. 70% more energy is required to produce ethanol than the energy that is actually in ethanol. Explains why they can't afford to use ethanol to make ethanol.... They use hydrocarbon fuels....

[QUOTE="Rruuff Day, post: 176932, member: 2217"] Unfortunately ethanol is a joke used to fool the general population of tree huggers into thinking their governments are being proactive for environmental change. Ethanol use is a short term reactive measure that is totally unsustainable in the long term. The only thing keeping it in our fuel now is subsidies. Comparitively, it costs 95 cents to make a gallon of gasoline, while it costs 1.74 to make a gallon of ethanol. 70% more energy is required to produce ethanol than the energy that is actually in ethanol. Explains why they can't afford to use ethanol to make ethanol.... They use hydrocarbon fuels.... [/QUOTE]

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