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Originally Posted by nibs
Thank you Rmay, I agree with what you say, especially re running the fermentation process and distillation in the south.
I think that this desire to increase mileage by not using ethanol is not a progressive step. Is it loosing site of the real objective which imo is using less fossil fuel and creating less pollution?
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I have a simple truth that I try to teach people.
Greener is Cheaper. if its not CHEAPER its not GREEN (or its green thats manipulated)
there is only one true way to be "green" and thats to USE LESS and to use that less more efficiently.
If ethanol was sitting in the ground like oil is I could see it being greener than gas. but once you see what it does to our older cars (and buying a new $30,000 car sure as hell is not green or practical) and how much POLLUTION there is in the actual ethanol production process (from the planting growing and harvesting of the corn and the ethanol production itself)
most people flat out IGNORE then entire pollution side of the ethanol itself.
well do you want to BE green or APPEAR to be green?
its many many times dirtier and less green than gasoline is.
even if you ignored 100% of the very significant pollution and resource issues on the ethanol side its STILL only cleaner in the NEWER cars that see a less than 10% drop in fuel economy. for everyone else its STILL dirtier and much much costlier.
All ethanol is, is DOLLARS to corn growers. thats it.