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Old Nov 10, 2009 | 08:06 PM
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Default Re: Gas without Ethanol

"May" contain - the keyword !

Hi, John!

The odds are that your gas doesn't contain any Ethanol.
Since Ethanol is produced regionally the price of it may vary between states & even counties but I'd be willing to bet that the cost of bulk Ethanol in Indiana is priced WAY above bulk gas & no sane gas station owner is going to kill his bottom line by blending.

Rudy, indeed - EXACTLY the way many of us feel about the whole Ethanol idea! Looks good on paper until you begin to factor in the cost of the propane or natural gas, the transporation costs to & from the plant, the waste by-product removal, etc. No wonder so many Ethanol producers have filed for bankruptcy. It's just NOT a viable long-term solution in this country. Even if we could grow switchgrass or use other waste by-products, we'd have to grow it on land that normal agriculture couldn't use & then grow it in huge amounts to compensate for the less-than-decent soil.
Oh, & then you have to create a whole new infrastructure to move the Ethanol from the production plant to the retailer since you cannot push Ethanol through the same pipelines you move gasoline through.
I'll take my hat off to Brazil for somehow managing to convert their entire fuel infrastructure to Ethanol but for this country it's just not practical!
 
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