The thing about ethanol fuels is that it is yet another fuel where you are creating it by using a good deal of energy and resources for a fuel that is not comparable to the ones it replaces... it does burn a lot cleaner which is a good thing. My current take on all of it is hoping that others follow some of the leads in those that are producing and using bio-diesel (oil from soy or corn). With some of the recent advances in filtration we can make a diesel run rather clean. If you then followed that up with creating a high efficiency diesel generator that could provide power to an electric drive train... oh well.. some day.

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