🚀 go-pugleaf

"Mr Frederick" <fpeditor1@hotmail.com> wrote in message 
news:AmK5j.16519$so3.5651@newsfe18.lga...
> "Canuck57" <dave-no_spam@unixhome.net> wrote in message 
> news:HvJ5j.3434$sg.655@pd7urf1no...
>>
>> "Mr Frederick" <fpeditor1@hotmail.com> wrote in message 
>> news:WnC5j.547$Fa7.303@newsfe17.lga...
>>
>>> Come on, that was disproved years ago.  You would have to have a pretty 
>>> old, high mileage vehicle to have a problem that replacing a fuel filter 
>>> doesn't solve.  I've used gasohol at times in every vehicle I have 
>>> driven since it was available over 25 years ago, and never, ever had a 
>>> problem.
>>
>> Still does not solve the fact that ethanol mixed with gasoline provides 
>> very little value beyond giving it an octane of 87.
>
> Wrongo!  Try 89!
> It is gasoline that is sold at 87!
>
>> Ethanol is a farce.  Even if we turned every cob of corn into ethanol, we 
>> would be lucky to supply 5% of North America's fuel needs!  And that is a 
>> lot of corn you can't eat.
>
> We don't use corn for our ethanol, it comes from low-grade wheat, and has 
> since 1981!

Chemically the same.

So we turn our corn, flax, wheat, barley, weeds, hay, wood, grass into 
ethanol, still don't have enough to stop oil importation into North American 
and we have nothing to eat.

And we don't even get to natural gas substitute.