Ethanol & Energy Blog

Oil is transported in most of the pipelines associated with fuel, not gasoline. Gasoline is distributed to gas stations by truck–not pipelines. Corn is the equivalent of oil and ethanol is the equivalent of gasoline.

For ethanol-gasoline mixtures, the problem has already been dealt with, as described in previous posts.

Ethanol is a stop-gap solution, we need to find more efficient and more abundant energy sources for long term survival.

For years, ethanol has been a percentage of all gasoline sold in Iowa with no bad effects. The ethanol was made a part of gasoline sold in Iowa by a state law to increase the consumption of ethanol in a state that produces a lot of the raw materials necessary to make ethanol — corn. As far as I know, the cars in Iowa are not harmed by this addition of alcohol mandated by state law and the price of gasoline in Iowa is not more expensive than in other states. In fact, the alcohol makes the octane rating of each grade higher than states that sell gasoline with no alcohol in it at all. Why can’t all 50 states mandate at least 10& alcohol in all grades of gasoline?