Ethanol or Electric

[sdifox]

ethanol is stupid

 

[natto fire]

I'm going to go with electric, especially if the ethanol is derived from corn. The peasants will revolt if the price of soda goes too high and considering it is mostly high fructose corn syrup, the Illuminati would never let that happen. At least not without taking our guns first. Now where did my tin foil hat go to?

 

[Throckmorton]

Originally posted by: GoatMonkey

Originally posted by: Throckmorton


Considering even if all the corn in America was used for ethanol it would only fuel 7% of cars (IIRC), no it's not going to reduce dependence on foreign oil. That's just a worthless sound bite politicians use to justify subsidies for the corn special interests.

93% < 100%

That 7% is not worth the food crisis and huge amount of deforestation of rainforests and land use change here.

The corn used to make one tank of ethanol is enough to feed a person for a year.

And even that 7% may require more fossil fuel inputs into the process, which would make it worse.. If the energy ratio is 120%, that would mean about a 1.5% drop in oil usage.