Re: GAS WAR - an idea that will work

["Carl Carlson" <Carl@xxxxxxxxx>]

Mark Leuck wrote:
> "Jim Rojas" <jrojas@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:4643a927$0$1430$4c368faf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Tampa is constructing an ethanol plant in response to high prices. My
>> Dodge Ram 1500 should run fine on E85, or a similar blend.
>>
>> Jim Rojas
>
> Problem is the alcohol in E85 has about half the energy of gasoline,
> the product is artificially low priced because it's heavily government
> subsidized AND there are issues with requiring using as much energy
> (oil) to create the alcohol in the first place. It's far harder to
> make alcohol from corn than sugar beats like Brazil.
>
> Also there aren't enough cornfields to really ramp up serious
> production and you start displacing food stock

So, you're saying other than that it's a pretty good idea then?
js