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Originally Posted by Red Baron
Nothing new..Corn filler, corn starch, corn syrup, corn meal etc, etc. It's always been their thing. The worse thing to ever happen to our food sources was the use of corn for animal feed. However that's a whole different topic so I digress.
From what I have I read, it takes about 20% more Ethanol to run the same mpg as gasoline.
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Ethanol = 75,670 BTU's per gallon
Gasoline = 115,400 BTU's per gallon
These figures from a sidebar in the original article. I'll let the math whizzes here figure the % age...the sidebar says that a gallon of pure ethanol will take you 66% of the distance a gallon of gas will.
I gotta wonder how much Archer-Daniel-Midlands donates to political campaigns...?