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Originally Posted by maxSaleen
Chicken and egg concept. You get enough demand, oil companies will figure out a way to get enough product on the table. The government would be willing to help out considering that 80% of the fuel's components would be "grown" domestically. This would be a huge boost to the economy. Think back to Henry Ford. Before him, cars were also very rare and expensive.
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There was 3 Billion gallons of Ethanol burned in US cars last year. They had a hard enough time keeping up with that as they set records. There is 375 million gallons of gas burned everyday in the USA alone in 2004. So there was as much gas burned in 4.5 days as there was all year for ethonal....
Anyway your argument for your other argument stated car manufactures took a long time to realize the benefits of ethanol which is completely incorrect. Henry Ford used it in 1907 in his First Model T. They have been using it in Brazil for a long time. By 2007 they are requiring 100% of new cars to be able to run on it (in Brazil). They are also using it in all other types of engines.
Ethanol is an excellent fuel that only suffers from lack of ability to mass produce it. It most likely will replace gas sometime in the future but no time soon. Probably not in our life time.
EDIT: Forgot to mention I build gas stations for a living.
