Sugar in the gas tank trick..
Liberals always cause a 2 problems with every solution they try
fyi
Who cares, as long as it feels and sounds good.
Fewer BTUs in a volume of ethanol than in the same volume of gasoline. The public is getting screwed economically as usual.
However, someone is making big bucks producing ethanol and erecting stupid windmills while we have plenty of good American energy buried in the ground.
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I said earlier today that Climate Science is science done backwards.
There are reputedly two reasons for creating biofuel.
1) Peak Oil. If you’re going to run out of conventional oil sources you have start creating petroleum from feedstock derived from a Fisher-Tropsch type chemical process that uses biomass as the raw material. The technology does actually work and one company even licenses its process around the world. Presumably Big Oil knows how much more fossil oil they can extract, so if they aren’t getting into biofuel in a big way already, why would anyone think we are imminent danger of running out? In 50 to 100 years, perhaps, but right now it’s jumping the price signal gun, pre-empting the natural market solution.
2) Global warming and ocean acidification from CO2. Because the carbon in biofuel comes from the atmosphere so it creates a closed cycle that doesn’t increase atmospheric CO2. Thus averting… what problem exactly? Well we’ve done this one to death multiple times but it keeps rising like an undead climate alarm zombie.
So in biofuel we again seem to have a solution in search of a problem. Backwards into the future.
Expect the “side effects” of the solution to in fact be the primary motivation of the plan.
Probably, though, if you're going in for ethanol production, you want to find the crop that best suits the process, rather than simply grow corn or sugar cane because you've always grown them.
Ethanol has less energy than gasoline and therefore gives worse mileage. It also produces more pollution. It’s bad enough that 10% of gasoline has ethanol added but now it’s being increased to 15%.