Yay team, it's time for us to go green?

I learned that gasoline with ethanol added gets poorer gas mileage than straight gasoline. The article said that gasoline with 10 percent ethanol added gets about 4 percent less mileage than straight gasoline. Hmm!

What amount of energy is used to grow the corn used to make the ethanol? The farmers use energy to produce and harvest the corn.

Corn is transported to a plant to produce ethanol. The plant uses energy to convert the corn into ethanol.

Ethanol has to be sent somewhere to mix it with the gasoline. This all uses energy.

Could the energy used by the total process be more than if we used straight gasoline?

I checked on the Internet. I found that University of California-Berkley geo-engineering professor Tad W. Patzek published a 50-page report on this. His report concluded that the cumulative energy used to produce ethanol from corn is six times greater than what the end product provides your car engine in terms of power.

Results:

In order to waste this energy, we suffer higher food prices because we produce less corn for food, and many food products use corn.

Brazil supplies Europe with ethanol and demolishes a jungle the size of Greece to plant corn each year.

My snowblower instruction manual tells me not to use gasoline with more than 10 percent ethanol as it can damage the engine..

So using ethanol wastes energy, costs a fortune, can damage engines and does damage to habitat.

Yea team, go green!

KARL J. FUCHS

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