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Originally Posted by rocket
ethanol is bad for everyone, it decreased the amount of food availible for eating (and exporting to poor nations as aid), increases the cost of food, rasises our taxes (ethanol production is not profitable, it's HEAVILY subsidised),
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Have you seriously looked at food subsidies?
Are you familiar with the term dumping before you say high food prices is bad for the third world?
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Originally Posted by rocket
takes more energy to produce than you get out of it,
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This is propeganda, as modern studies dont support this claim. It WAS only true of corn ethanol anyway.
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Originally Posted by rocket
can can drop MPGs. what is the benefit?
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Carbon neutral fuel.
Octane of 116 in its pure form.
Oxyegenate when mixed with gasoline
Much more ecologically friendly when spilled into the ground.
Has antifreeze properties when mixed with gas for winter use.
Ethanol has solvent properties that keep engine components cleaner.