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Originally Posted by sammyg2
My concern with the environmental issues of ethanol are not necessarily related to what comes out of the car's tailpipe.
I am more concerned with the emissions resulting from the growing of the corn, the harvesting of the corn, the processing of the corn, the distillation of the ethanol, and the transportation of all that stuff.
That process is net negative energy.
It takes more energy to produce ethanol than you get from the ethanol produced.
How could that possibly be considered environmentally friendly?
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I think they feed the tailings to pigs, which makes it slightly better I suppose. I don't really know anyone who is a big fan of ethanol in fuel, but I have been willing to tolerate it at 10%.
Once you get up past that, I don't really want it in my cars. If someone finds a petition, let me know, I'll sign it...