Star Tron has worked well for me.
Are we stuck with Ethanol blended into gasoline forever?
https://www.realclearscience.com/bl...ure_but_were_probably_stuck_with_it.htmlSample quote
“The ethanol program functions as a hidden food tax—the most regressive of all taxes,"
Mario Loyola, a senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, wrote for The Atlantic last year.
"And the effects on poor Americans are magnified for poor countries that depend on imports of food."
Ethanol's government-mandated grasp on agriculture is best exemplified with a startling statistic: "In the United States, the cultivation of corn for ethanol now requires a staggering 38 million acres of land—an area larger than the state of Illinois. By comparison, the total area of cropland used to produce grains and vegetables that humans eat is only about twice that acreage," Loyola wrote.
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And as a side note, there is another subject that isn't heard of much. Our use of ethanol is a major propaganda tool for our enemies. People in third world countries often don't have enough to eat, despite the millions and millions of dollars in food aid that the Unites States donates to them. Our enemies proclaim that us fat, lazy Americans burn food (corn) in our Cadillacs so that we can get to the mall to buy their sweat shop produced shirts and pants.
I know it sounds crazy to us knowing there is a major difference between types of corn. But to the hungry, uneducated masses in some countries, it rings true and gives them just one more reason to hate us.
Our government insists on oxygenators in our fuels. MTBE was the go-to oxygenator for years. Then they discovered that it did not dissipate in water and hung on for a very long time. And it was a carcinogen. So, the next best thing was ethanol. There was good reason why it was not the government's first choice for an oxygenator, but the environment and politics come first, so here we are.
Just another sad saga of the 'tail wagging the dog'. The United States no longer picks the best and the brightest. And more and more we do the wrong thing for all the right reasons.
