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Originally Posted by jaydee
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....
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A large portio of that Ethanol was burned in Cali, and actually cost us more than the equivelent amount of Gas would of.
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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.
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The main problem with ethonal is efficiency of production where the amount of land and resources required to build the biomass to produce the ethanol approaches the enegery generated by it. As a bi-product fuel source its great, but as a primary fuel source it does leave a lot to be desired.