Ethonal is corn wiskey produced with a subsidy by the US government to be added to our Petroleum based gasoline. It costs more than four dollars a gallon to produce, even with the one dollar subsidy from the US government. It rots the seals and rubber in our fuel sytems, cannot be transported by pipeline, and is therefore a waste of time, money, and good agricultural land.
It's promotion as a fuel additive has tripled the price of corn and substantialy raised the price of food world wide.
All this while reducing the MPG we get out of a gallon of fuel because it has only half the energy of gasoline. And, it has a limited shelf life which means if you don't use it you lose it and likely whatever motor you stored over winter. It absorbs water and separates from the petroleum part of the fuel mix.
It has made companies like ADM and Monsanto rich while forcing the use of marginal land into production. The requirements for petro chemical fertilizers has increased substantialy. Therefore the importation of foriegn oil into the US goes unabated.
Ethanol. A remarkable achievement.
On the bright side, our fuel lines don't freeze in winter.
Not a fan then
Bring on the hydrogen made from nice clean nuclear power stations I say, I'm sure Homer can do it.
Apparently we do add it over here as well but just don't tell people, can't say I've ever noticed any problem. Maybe because our standard is 95ron?