2007-10-24; 14:46:30 EDT
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Brad, To the best of my knowledge, I am the only Rhodie that burns E-85 in his vehicle. In fact, I will go out of my way to find a station that sells it. The corn bi-products of making ethanol are completely recyclable as livestock feed. Burning ethanol does not put as much pollution into the air as gasoline when burned. Yes, there is still 15% gasoline in it, but that's only to prevent some redneck alcoholic from drinking something that is 100 pure ethanol. I would rather pay the farmers and the ethanol manufacturers a fair market price than to line the pockets of some Arab Sheik. Add the cost of wars and cleaning up oil pollution and I still say that ethanol is a bargain. We have a lot more land available that could be growing corn or any other plant that could be used to make ethanol. Brazil is a good example. Even though they have oil reserves and refineries, they burn almost exclusively, ethanol, made from sugar cane. Rummy ************************************** See what's new at http://www.aol.comSee the original archive post