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Old 12-09-2008, 05:27 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Ethanol in gasoline

Since the topic came up in the Introductions area of the page, I've been looking up where all this came from.

Anyone have any links to studies that say Ethanol use in gasoline in it's current (and future increased) proportions does anything useful beyond helping out Ethanol producers?

Does it increase energy density of gas making it more efficient?
Does it make it burn significantly cleaner?
Do its benefits significantly outweigh its detriments?
Is its transportation to non-ethanol producing areas just wasting more fuel?

On the topic I found this from April 2002. Hmm... the arguments sound familiar...

A lot of what I can find is just a couple articles similar to "bipartisan support for ethanol mandate increase" to mountains of articles and blog entries that decry such actions. This may sound snarky and "slightly" biased, but I really do want to know if this is intelligent in any way, shape, or form.

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