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Is EPA Ethanol Mandate a Joke?

Almost agree with you. Ethanol makes gasoline burn cleaner and is used to boost octane. It is very efficient up to a 10% consentration.


On Jun 12 08:11 PM gashog wrote:

> We really should go in the opposite direction to these ill conceived
> and scientifically nonsense ideas that adding additives like ethanol
> will help us drop our dependency on foreign (Arab) oil. Since it
> can be verified thermodynamically that ethanol has less energy per
> gallon than pure gasoline and that today's modern cars and vehicles
> with catalytic converters and other emissions controllers prevent
> the tailpipe gases from fouling the air quality the incorrect idea
> that oxygenated fuels would improve emissions quality should be changed.
> Today's cars and trucks will get more miles per gallon from pure
> 100% gasoline fuels that are refined from DOMESTIC oil field sources
> (like the Alaskan oil fields and offshore oil fields which are being
> developed by the Chinese with Cuban help!). Americans should wake
> up and admit that inorder to enjoy energy independence we must start
> developing our own natural resorces and stop buying the oil from
> the Middleeast. Tell our Congress to approve domestic oil production
> and use what God gave us. Use the Corn for food and beef on cornfed
> diets will be mad-cow-free and the costs of everything will drop
> while USA productivity and inflation will improve!