To: Ish who wrote (246144 ) 4/8/2002 6:16:51 PM From: Zoltan! Read Replies (1) | Respond to >>Let's say it has 10% less energy and you are using a 10% blend. That would mean your mileage would be reduced by 1% while you are using 10% less Iraqi oil. Which ethanol doesn't. It reduces pollution because you get a better burn on the gas which helps to offset the lower energy of ethanol. BTW, next Memorial Day when the cars are going 200 miles per hour at the Indy 500, they are running 100% corn alcohol. No gas at all. Methanol is what powers Indy cars.That's a blessing. Condensation in tanks used to put water in gas which caused clogged fuel lines and frozen fuel lines in cold areas. The alcohol absorbs the water, takes it through the filter, and it gets turned to steam in your engine. Nope, it does cost more to produce than gasoline but it's just a big version of a still like the moon shiners use. You can use corn cobs to distill the alcohol off the mash and feed the left over mash to the hogs. We can learn a lesson from Brazil, which was once the largest producer of ethanol in the world. When the Brazilian government stopped its costly ethanol subsidies, the producers of ethanol who were in the past making millions of dollars stopped producing ethanol! powerweb.net
