[hopespringseternal]

The current gas-engine-based production infrastructure naturally discourages alternatives to gasoline.

Duh. That is how the market works. Ethanol is a poor replacement for gasoline at a higher cost. The only way it will be used is socialism.

[apochromat]

I'll bet you say "Duh" and then go on to repeat what you are replying to, while ignoring parts of it, a lot.

[apochromat]

Maybe communists are trying to discourage alternatives to gas, so they can continue to culture the sympathies of enviro-whackjobs of dissent.