"Brent" > wrote in message
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> On 2012-08-10, RichA > wrote:
>> It is of no value. It has raised corn prices (and all the myriad
>> foods associated with it) by 100% over 1.5 years. It scours engine
>> components of their protective oil layer. It dries out seals. It
>> should be abolished.
>> P.S. Enviroqueers; Lead by example, STOP DRIVING.
>
> The environment is the excuse. It has nothing to do with
> environmentalists. It has to do with big business and the corn lobby.
>
> Corn ethanol is stupid. Sugar cane ethanol works (energy &
> economically). But here's the problem, can't make sugar cane ethanol in
> the contintal USA because it doesn't grow here. It works nicely for
> Brazil. Could work for Hawaii, but Hawaii being part of the USA is stuck
> with US politics so they import corn ethanol instead of making their own
> locally with sugar cane.

Can't? Louisiana, MS, Texas come to mind. Also sugar beets. My
grandfather ran some of his trucks on ethanol during WWII.