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Ethanol vs. Natural Gas or Coal: Comparison Not Even Close

I live in Brazil about 10 months out of a year, return only to file taxes. Here in Brazil, cars are made now days to run on gasoline, ethanol or compressed natural gas or any of the three. Most fuel stations here sell all three, with gasoline being the most expensive. Most all taxi's here run on CNG which is the cheapest. They get about 3-4 kilometers per cubic meter. GM and Ford both make cars here so I can't understand why they don't use the technology developed here to produce cars in the USA. Here is a novel idea, GM could build cars to run on gasoline or CNG and put fuel stations at all their dealerships. There are dealerships in almost every city in the country. They could get a leg up on the competition by doing this.
The technology is there to build cars on most any fuel, why are we so far behind?

3 Energy MLPs for the Price of One

Funny, I own several MLP's inside my IRA and the nice thing is you don't need to fill out the Schedule K or anything else. When you withdraw from the IRA you are taxed only on the funds withdrawn. I take withdrawals as I need, monthly from the income. I try to invest only in companies that pay over 6% and the average of all investment income must be over 8%. This will generate enough income that even after the RMD there is some money left to invest in other companies. I diversify enough that my monthly income is about the same month to month. Thanks for the article.