“I recall seeing an editorial posted on here that claimed carbon emissions go to zero with ethanol, apparently unaware that ethanol molecules contain carbon....a useful idiot, yes. I suppose there are brains manipulating the useful idiots.”
As you go through history, there are ALWAYS very smart people leading revolutions. Often they wind up being killed in their revolutions, but they are ALWAYS led by smart people.
In the case Ethanol, it does burn ‘clean’ in that the only products of burning are CO2 and water, but the definition of ‘clean’ has now been contracted to exclude CO2.
Octane (and whatever other hydrocarbons in gasoline) does not burn clean??