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Non-Tech : $2 or higher gas - Can ethanol make a comeback?

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To: richardred who wrote (1241)	5/19/2006 11:38:05 AM
From: manalagi	Read Replies (2) of 2801

What planet is GM on? Remember the electric cars that GM built for California? Only a handful of people bought it. Now it wants to build 400,000 vehicles E85, with only 800+ stations (after additional 120 by GM), as compared to 180,000 gas stations in the US. First of all, generating biofuels is more expensive because of the negative yield of energy, and secondly you get less gas mileage resulting into more stops to the difficult to find ethanol stations. While the resulting price of E85 is about the same as gasoline, you pay more per mileage of driving. Thirdly, the new engine is still new, and not "battle tested" like 22R engine. Has there any news about Toyota or Honda or Nissan planning to build E85 cars? They are the successful car manufacturers and they go into another direction. Ethanol is not a viable alternative for the US. It is successful in Brazil because the government mandated and ethanol derived from sugar cane is energy positive. A country like Singapore can be successful in changing to ethanol: the country is small, it can import ethanol from Brazil, and the government is "semi dictatorship".

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